alt Hacker NewsI would love to be able to run frontier locally, but I think the larger importance of open weight models is price accountability.
In the US with our broken system of capitalism, it’s the only way we can tether these companies to reality. Left to their own devices, I’m not convinced they would actually compete with each other on price.
Buy nobody like to talk about how “moat” building is fundamentally anti-competitive, even in name.
Funny that self proclaimed capitalists hate the system in practice. Commodity pricing is what truly terrifies them.
I'm not necessarily interested in having frontier locally. You don't need to be frontier to be a very good and useful coding agent. I agree with your point on price accountability though. Hopefully no tariff comes down on the Chinese and European open-weight models.