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by FuckButtons 80 days ago
3.5-plus was also only available via api. I don’t know what the long term business model for open weights is, I hope there is one, but it seems foolish to assume that companies will be willing to spend millions of dollars of compute on an asset worth zero in perpetuity.
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The business case is to salt the earth for new competitors, coupled with marketing.