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Teams aren't ditching closed APIs because open models got smarter. They're doing it for cost control, data privacy, and no vendor lock-in.
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TL;DR: Teams aren’t switching to open-source models because they’ve surpassed proprietary ones in raw capability. They are actually doing it because these models are now good enough for the high-volume, everyday work agents do, such as retrieval, extraction, classification, and routine generation. Self-hosting those parts has other significant advantages, as well, such as cost control, data privacy, and independence from one vendor.