๐Ÿ’ป Tom Tunguz: 'Yeltsin in the AI Aisle' โ€” Why Cheap, 'Good Enough' Models Are Winning

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๐Ÿ’ป Tom Tunguz: 'Yeltsin in the AI Aisle' โ€” Why Cheap, 'Good Enough' Models Are Winning

โ€ข 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.
โ€ข Argues buyers increasingly pick models by size, speed, and cost rather than raw capability โ€” smaller open models stay popular because they're cheap and "good enough."
โ€ข Signals a maturing market where model choice, not just frontier performance, drives adoption.

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