alt Hacker NewsThat is interacting with it - which people are getting charged more and more for.
The first ones are free.
And as long as they keep the weights proprietary (which all the major players are for their primary models), they can decide to charge whatever they want later.
> which people are getting charged more and more for.
Completely false. The price for LLM inference at a given level of model intelligence has been dropping like a rock.
There are more expensive models available, but you don't have to use them. The same LLM knowledge that was available a couple years ago is now free to download and run on your laptop.