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If open weight models are the future, U.S. AI companies are going to have a hard time (www.fastcompany.com)
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[–] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

They don’t have to host it themselves. They could use a number of providers for the same model, and basically keep doing whatever they were doing with OpenAI/Anthropic via the exact same APIs.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    Of course but they would have to pay for accessing it and the company with more efficient model will offer it at lower prices and most likely win customers. Having open weights doesn't change anything here.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago*

    Well, the current state is that there are a couple of "best" models, but literally hundreds of independent providers serving them. As an example, one can get GLM 5.1 from its trainer, or one can get it from DigitalOcean, or Baidu, or SiliconFlow ASICs, or get it at very high speed from Cerebras ASICs, or AMD providers, or finetune it from a number of services, or rent the self hosting...

    The companies aren't keeping the models to themselves, and that blows the marketplace open to a boatload of competitors.

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