This argument sneaks in the fact that models are commodities which is NOT true. Claude has a different personality and performance than other models for example.
Expect more differentiation in the future and not less.
For lots of use cases you don't want the BEST model, you want the model that gets the job done for as little money as possible.
"Cursor" Grok has the exact same (non-)personality as Claude.
GPT has the same performance. And performance is definitely a commodity. Why wouldn't it be?
> Claude has a different personality and performance than other models for example
This kind of thing amounts to a LoRa applied to your model. There's no reason (apart from potential IP infringement) that someone else couldn't produce a "Claude LoRa" for their model (or, more likely, given the dislike for Claude's writing style, Anthropic could offer a "non-Claude LoRa" for their own models)