Not Primarily Due to Technical Superiority
In his article »Revealing the Hidden Economics of Open Models in the AI Era« Frank Nagle summarizes the study »The Latent Role of Open Models in the AI Economy«, which he co-authored with Daniel Yue from Georgia Tech. He shows how clearly open AI models are underestimated in the current market. The basis is an unusually extensive dataset on usage, pricing, and performance of various models. ...