The Chinese open source models are hosted everywhere for very cheap and they are very close to the performance of the newest models. No idea where growth for OpenAI and so on is supposed to come from

Burning gas is so extremely bad that even throwing away your old ICE car and buying a new electric car is better than driving the ICE car until it „falls apart“. This was the research finding in Switzerland, but this result was so unwelcome that the research got hidden away. https://www.republik.ch/2025/06/11/amtliche-selbstzensur