If LLMs were already pure commodities, OpenAI wouldn't be able to charge a premium, and DeepSeek wouldn’t have needed to distill their model from OpenAI in the

If LLMs were already pure commodities, OpenAI wouldn't be able to charge a premium, and DeepSeek wouldn’t have needed to distill their model from OpenAI in the first place. The fact that they did proves there’s still a moat—just maybe not as wide as OpenAI hoped.