> Serving Opus 4.8 isn't worth a trillion+ valuation. > The valuation of the AI labs is based on continual improvements of their models.

While I do agree, no-one here made the initial claim on their valuation and especially suggesting that "Serving Opus 4.8" alone was worth a trillion+ valuation.

> Open weight models are going to catch up to Opus 4.8 and at that point the model is a pure commodity.

Good. We should all hope that happens.