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The best AI models could keep demanding a premium in high-stakes work, just like the best lawyers do. @WorksInProgMag Editor @Simon__Grimm explains why: "There is a very strong preference for the strongest model in situations that are basically competitive." "If you look at how much lawyers make, the best lawyers make much, much, much more money than the median lawyer." "A very small difference in ability makes the difference between winning and losing." "That premium is worth all the…
Patrick OShaughnessy@patrick_oshagAug 25
Neil on open source v. frontier models: "The labs pay an immense premium to be 3-6 months ahead of everything else. I think that's probably still worth it. But I don't know that the premium is going to last that long. If you look at enterprise deployments, they don't move at three to six month speed. A lot of enterprises are probably still on Opus 4.6 or Opus 4.7. I don't think there's any way to call a winner in this race, and certainly I don't even think this is a race that can be decided ever. It's a continual process. I don't think open source ever goes away. If there's a vacuum because one leader steps out, a new leader will step in. It just gets easier every day to train a frontier class model."
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