π» Tom Tunguz: 'Yeltsin in the AI Aisle' β Why Cheap, 'Good Enough' Models Are Winning
β’ Tunguz revisits Boris Yeltsin's stunned 1989 reaction to a Houston supermarket's abundance to describe today's crowded AI model marketplace on platforms like OpenRouter.
β’ Argues buyers increasingly pick models by size, speed, and cost rather than raw capability β smaller open models stay popular because they're cheap and "good enough."
β’ Signals a maturing market where model choice, not just frontier performance, drives adoption.
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