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That’s not an accurate analogy.
LLM providers are SaaS providers, meaning that even if they were to give you the source of all the tools they use, there’s a fundamental limit to how much you can self host.
A better comparison would be Google giving away their indexed search data: you might be able to run an infinitesimal portion of it on your hardware, and will never ever match the results Google offers on their website, and since it’s a monopoly, you would be at a permanent disadvantage.
Same goes for all these AI companies. They are an oligopoly that give away subpar free models, compared to their cloud offerings. Self hosted LLMs will never stand a chance.