K3 is as expensive as Sonnet, not great at writing English, is handing IP back to the Chinese, and once open source will be difficult to run at scale without the compute that OpenAI and Anthropic have largely grabbed.
Sorry, how again is this the end of the frontier labs?
According to some benchmarks has the coding capability of Opus at the price of Sonnet, supposedly will be open weights and is not subject to random trade wars with allied states.
Well, with the actions of the US government, for every business that does not exclusively operate in the US, they have now added _supplier risk_ to US companies.
Even as a paying customer, even as an enterprise, your access to US models may be turned off at any time for arbitrary reasons, including someone mis-understanding "Please fix this [open source] code" (which contained security vulnerabilities that were fixed) as a jailbreak.
And they need to support prompt caching, or customers stuck on Bedrock will still find the very expensive models from OpenAI and Anthropic prics-competitive with the Chinese ones.
Sorry, how again is this the end of the frontier labs?