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Why do people continue to use them despite the existence of so many open weights models? This is "priced in." Short of stealing the checkpoints straight from the servers, it's unlikely to change.
I think it’s mostly a marketing, branding thing. Most people haven’t heard of the Chinese AI companies and models, but everybody heard of OpenAI and Anthropic. The US companies have sales team, a constant media presence. It’s just a question of time for open models to gain market shares.

Just look at how OpenAI has lost market share over the past year

Anyone who remotely pays attention to AI would know who DeepSeek is, given the shockwave it sent in early 2025, impacting the tech stocks. News was full of "Kimi moment" recently too.
Sure but a few weeks of coverage is nothing compared to OpenAI and Anthropic. Claude and ChatGPT are household names you can mention to your parents, it’s not the case (yet) for the Chinese models
>Why do people continue to use them despite the existence of so many open weights models?

Because of the low prices lol.