I wouldn't say this kills a class of startups. Being constrained to a single model provider is quite limiting for this kind of use case. What if you get better

I wouldn't say this kills a class of startups. Being constrained to a single model provider is quite limiting for this kind of use case. What if you get better cost/performance results by distilling into an open source model? In a landscape that changes so rapidly, there's a lot of value in provider-agnostic tooling.