Hacker News post questions "no vendor lock-in" and model-picker strategy in AI products
What happened
A Hacker News front-page post on October 5 questions AI products that sell "no vendor lock-in" and offer a model selector. The view it presents calls that strategy the weakest answer: users pick frontier models for the best performance, not out of trust in a vendor or a hunt for low prices. It also says open models still trail frontier models such as GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 on benchmarks, so a model selector does not settle an AI product's competitive problem. The post covers only this argument, with no product changes or responses.
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- Hacker News front page"No Vendor Lock-In" Is Code for "No Product"
针对以"无厂商锁定"为卖点、提供模型选择器的 AI 产品，有观点认为这是最弱的答案：用户使用前沿模型是因为想要最佳性能，而非信任厂商或价格便宜，开源模型在基准上仍远不及 GPT-6 Astra、Claude Fable 5.1、Opus 5.5 等前沿模型。
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