Key Info

Ahmad Awais, CEO of Command Code, says a $10B bank contacted the company about replacing 90% of its Claude and GPT usage with open models, and claims dozens of that bank's engineers already direct more than 90% of their usage to open models.

Highlights

  • The claimed pitch is open models matching Claude quality at 'Costco-like prices'
  • Awais says enterprise and even national adoption will accelerate over the next six months
  • He argues most US households don't pay for Claude or GPT, so abundant tokens and local AI could shift usage patterns
  • No specific model names, benchmarks, contract terms or timelines were disclosed