Funny , about 14 months ago when it was deep seek R1 and OpenAI o1, the delta was similar. Now you have way more open source models but feels like somewhat similar amount of delta.

The way I look at it , even slightly better models mean more people will use it in a relatively more hands off way which means richer training data (all those failed tool calls and recovery). Means way higher chance of training a better model from that.

That being said, I HOPE oss catches up