Yeltsin in the AI Aisle

First Principle

Recognize that market segmentation can create opportunities for legacy products to thrive alongside newer offerings, as diverse buyer needs lead to unexpected preferences. Prioritize understanding the specific needs of your target audience to tailor your solutions, rather than solely chasing the latest advancements.

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A year-old GPT-OSS-120b still serves 36% of Claude Opus 4.8's daily token volume on OpenRouter because the inference market has segmented across cost, speed, & accuracy. GLM 5.2 now out-serves the frontier at 495B tokens a day, & Opus 5 shipped to contest the open-weight field. Mixture-of-experts lets a 118B model decode at the cost of a 26B model,…