George Kurtz reports that a bank customer would pay for frontier models for highly important, profit-generating work, but use its own open-weight models for other tasks because frontier models are expensive.

“Like, if it's alpha and we're making money and it's like, you know, super important, we'll pay the money, not, no big deal. But for all the other things, like, it's really expensive, and we're gonna create all of our own open-weight models, you know, and do more post-training on them and those sort of things," that that's the way they're gonna operate.”