[alightsoul]

you keep the model. it's never deprecated. with closed ai, you are forced into a new more expensive model every few months. if an open model infra provider does that, you simply switch to another one. it's not in their interest to do that.

[TurdF3rguson]

That's not really true though, providers are deprecating models and I have at least 10 emails to prove it.

[alightsoul]

Nothing stops you from downloading the model and hosting it on a cloud virtual machine

[TurdF3rguson]

Common sense does, but other than that I suppose you're right.

[trollbridge]

A provider deprecating a model doesn't mean the .gguf file disappears from my computer.

[AgentMasterRace]

hell yeha bro, I still rock qwen 0.1

[kzrdude]

When the weights are publically available (and open to use), then there's a free market for hosting that model at least. That's not independence for me, but it's lack of vendor lock-in.

For some of the open models, there's a list of 20-30 providers of the same model on openrouter for example, as an example of the supply.