Not magical thinking, not conspiratorial, just hypothetical.
Just because you can't afford to 10x all your customers' inference doesn't mean you can't afford to 10x your inhouse inference.
And 2.5x is from Anthropic's latest offering. But it costs you 6x normal API pricing.
Also, from a comment in another thread, from roon, who works at OpenAI:
> codex-5.2 is really amazing but using it from my personal and not work account over the weekend taught me some user empathy lol it’s a bit slow
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