Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet

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Open-source AI models are gaining adoption for mature use cases, but frontier models like Anthropic's aren't losing revenue. Instead, they operate in separate lifecycle phases: expensive frontier models prove new use cases, which then migrate to cheaper open-source alternatives as they mature. New use cases keep emerging, maintaining overall frontier model spending.