George Kurtz firmly believes customers will reserve frontier models for selected high-value work and use open-weight models for other tasks, saying he sees this pattern repeatedly among customers.

“And I firmly believe that. I'm seeing that in customer after customer, that that's, that's, that's the way they're gonna go. And I think, you know, part of some of the challenges in the current environment is I think people are, are all seeing that and, you know, there, there is some concern, you know, at the frontier level of, of what's gonna take place.”