I would argue performance optimizations help with local/open models but hurt openai and anthropic - because open and or cheap/alternative models are threat to those companies. There is a fundamental contradiction/conflict between the prevelance of open models and the financial success of openai and anthropic. That is why they are doing everything they can to kill any open/cheap/efficient/chinese models (take a look at this thread - it was top of HN 40 mins ago, with very high engagement... now it is buried in page 5... totally normal and legit).
eggbrain · · focus · HN ↗
If local LLMs get "good" enough, people will soon paying for subscriptions to ChatGPT and Claude, which hurts their revenue.
aleqs · · focus · HN ↗