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by Cheer2171 266 days ago
The only money to be made is in compute, not open weights themselves. What point is a market when a commons like huggingface or modelscope? Alibaba made modelscope to compete with HF, and that's a commons not a market either, if that tells you anything.

By analogy, you can legally charge for copies of your custom Linux distribution, but what's the point when all the others are free?