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I think the future of open weights models will be similar to fabless chip design companies. There will be companies that can train models and they will licence those models to inference companies that manage the APIs.
The inference companies need much less capital and the training companies dont need to divert resources from training to inference.
Some of the Chinese model training companies are already doing this and licencing their models to inference providers.
On mobile, or at least on mine (pixel 10) using chrome, the graphs are unreadable and unusable, which is a shame as I'm quite interested in them and I don't have access to a pc at the moment. Would you be able to change that?
They steal the scroll/drag touch and turn into a nightmare if zooming / unzooming, and are squashed and unreadable when they first render.
This is likely the case. I think people expecting companies to provide near-SOTA models for free forever are wrong.
I think at some point, Deepseek or Z or other AI training companies will sell their models for fees. I can imagine buying an LLM model for $499 one-time payment for personal use. Maybe buying software and owning it will come back. Some will make you subscribe so you get the latest models as they release them.
Of course, they will also license their models to inference providers like you said.
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