Comment by hedora

It’s open weight, so the price will end up being the marginal cost of hosting it.

Personally, I like that there is an option to not send data to companies that have strong financial incentives to steal it.

Also, open weight foundation models can be distilled, so they’re providing a service that the US duopoly is actively blocking. Given that app specific distillation can get > 10x improvements on inference cost (with slight improvement of quality), it’s clear that it’ll win out over time.