Migrating takes minutes, no need to do the changeover to worse local models until the situation is truly dire.

They are desparate to ban open models.

lol how

They started yesterday. Announced right around the same time that GLM enables cyber threats or some nonsense.

Apparently they don't want to compete now that they're doubling the costs.

just make it illegal? "open models are as bad as CSAM"

Agree but if you don't want to then be at the mercy of the cloud providers when everyone is rushing for the exits, you need to start thinking about securing hardware now.

lol, that ship sailed years ago

Heh, good luck with hardware. Will bankrupt you at current prices.

Can you recommend good and capable open models? Where does one go? OpenRouter or someplace else?

GLM-5.3, Kimi K3. OpenRouter is good for figuring out which provider you want with the serving precision that you need.