Open-weights models are catching up and are now viable for many tasks.
Keep in mind that closed, proprietary models:
1) Use your data internally for training, analytics, and more - because "the data is the moat"
2) Are out of your control - one day something might work, another day it might fail because of a model update, a new "internal" system prompt, or a new guardrail that just simply blocks your task
4) Are built on the "biggest intellectual property theft" of this century, so they should be open and free ;-)
Why is everyone so careless about letting Claude Desktop upload their source code and/or private data to its servers? Or maybe I'm too paranoid for caring about where data go.
"These run exclusively on servers Proton controls so your data is never stored on a third-party platform." But it's stored on somebody else's computer anyway.
Keep in mind that closed, proprietary models:
1) Use your data internally for training, analytics, and more - because "the data is the moat"
2) Are out of your control - one day something might work, another day it might fail because of a model update, a new "internal" system prompt, or a new guardrail that just simply blocks your task
4) Are built on the "biggest intellectual property theft" of this century, so they should be open and free ;-)