TLDR Tech / AI
Open weights are quietly closing up - and that's a problem
Open weights models allow anyone to run the model on their own hardware. This allows model use to be private, flexible, and low-cost. Many companies will run open weight models at significantly less cost than the cost of frontier models per token, and the performance gap isn't that big. However, the increasing costs of training mean that more and more models are being released under tighter license conditions. The competitive open weights ecosystem may soon be at an end, and this has enormous implications for the wider economy.
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