OpenAI's integration of Chinese LLM as a desperate retention strategy

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OpenAI's integration of Moonshot Kimi, a Chinese LLM, into its B2B marketplace via Baseten, allowing enterprise customers to use Kimi's cheaper rates against their existing OpenAI commitments, is a desperate attempt to retain users who are expected to migrate to lower-cost open-source models once their contracts expire.