Closed AI models now dominate the price-performance frontier | Village
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At almost every budget, the best AI model you can buy is closed. An open-weight model wins at just 3% of price points, down from 41% in June.
  • y0kai@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    At almost every budget, the best AI model you can buy is closed. An open-weight model wins at just 3% of price points, down from 41% in June.

    I fail to see how something I get for free is somehow a worse bargain than the thing I have to pay for…

    also that first sentence doesn’t make sense. its like saying "at almost every budget, the best thing you can purchase is not also offered for free.

    • Joe@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      13 hours ago

      Free isn’t free though. It’s a significant investment to buy and run the h/w to run the largest open-weights models.

      We therefore see are companies selling tokens for open weights models on OpenRouter and similar, giving us a price point to compare.

      If it weren’t for those darn kids (open weights models, typically chinese), they could have gotten away with it (frontier labs charging 4x the price) too!

      US labs are tough position … financially, they need to increase their margins / reduce costs to support their debt/obligations/growth (hence the common prediction that API prices must go up), while at the same time being squeezed. I’m waiting to see if they can magic up some rabbits or if they have a firesale to those with deep pockets.