> hand out free top end model coding access for a bit and you'll very rapidly have developer data
They tried this - grok was free on openrouter for a while
But imagine if they handed out free access to Kimi or GLM-5. Actually, I still wouldn't use it, because I avoid APIs that say they hold on to data.
Marketing push was there too, everyone was saying Grok had jumped Claude and Codex, yet I never got that when using all 3.