Opus 1M context window and lighting fast response time is hard to compete with, even if you run a local A100 the local models are just not as good as tool calling, long running tasks and non-hallucinations
It was hard for an Apple ][ to compete with an IBM mainframe at enterprise data processing, but the power of personal ownership & commodity economics was disruptive enough that 30 years later 99%+ of enterprise data processing was taking place on descendants of the original personal computers.
It was hard for an Apple ][ to compete with an IBM mainframe at enterprise data processing, but the power of personal ownership & commodity economics was disruptive enough that 30 years later 99%+ of enterprise data processing was taking place on descendants of the original personal computers.