Long story short, open source and open weight models have come a long way and pulled ahead in the AI race. You now have FREE models from Deepseek and Kimi, which are as good or even better than the best Anthropic model for coding. It has seriously gotten that absurd now, you would not believe it but it is true . Deepseek V4 Flash is basically a Mythos tier model and dirt cheap.
Which brings me to why are we paying Anthropic thru our noses and burning Illumina's free cash flow? It should be prudent for any leader with a conscience to save Illuminas profits for share buybacks and capex for innovation. Please don't burn money on Anthropics overpriced and lower quality AI models, and open up Illumina's Cursor plans to start using Cursor's models or Kimi or Deepseek. Mind you these are now hosted all on American clouds and so no data is given to China. Save our money. Pump our stock, not Anthropics IPO.
Make Illumina Rich Again.