If LLMs were already pure commodities, OpenAI wouldn't be able to charge a premi...

		glenstein 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its mode... If LLMs were already pure commodities, OpenAI wouldn't be able to charge a premium, and DeepSeek wouldn’t have needed to distill their model from OpenAI in the first place. The fact that they did proves there’s still a moat—just maybe not as wide as OpenAI hoped.