HONESTLY, WHO BUYS SOTA?

Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

Labs are shipping smarter models faster than ever, but 84% of tokens on OpenRouter are not state-of-the-art. The most popular models deliver about 77% of frontier models at 2.5% of Claude Fable 5's price. Frontier models are still winning on software architecture and security design, but application deployment is optimizing price over performance.