It's high-interest to me because open models are the ultimate backstop. If the SOTA hosted models all suddenly blow up or ban me, open models mitigate the consequence from "catastrophe" to "no more than six to nine months of regression". The idea that I could run a ~GPT-5-class model on my own hardware (given sufficient capex) or cloud hardware under my control is awesome.

For the record, opus 4.6 was released less then a week ago.

That you think corporations are anything close to quick enough to update their communications on public releases like this only shows that you've never worked in corporate