The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models
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- #Market Competition
- #Open Weight Models
- #AI Pricing
- DeepSeek V4's pricing is nearly 50x cheaper than Anthropic and OpenAI's frontier models.
- Anthropic and OpenAI may be manufacturing scarcity by positioning themselves as luxury/premium brands.
- Open weight models are cheaper, possibly due to stress testing on various hardware or being offered as loss leaders.
- Concerns exist that Anthropic and OpenAI might use fears about China to push bans on open weight models.
- The US historically champions open source, but current open weight/model releases are limited or outdated.
- True open source models with open-sourced training data pipelines are seen as the future leapfrog scenario.
- Examples include Allen AI's OLMO (data cutoff Dec 2024) and a US NSF-Nvidia partnership to develop fully open AI.