Yea, I agree with this, but I still don’t see what advantage the state of the art providers receive by adhering to an open protocol. If anything doing so would (on the margin) push users towards open source models when they might have been willing to pay for a more advanced model just to access certain plugins.

That being said, I do think that a standardized approach to a plugin ecosystem will arise. I just think it’s silly to expect any of the foundation model providers to participate.