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empath75today at 7:19 PM1 replyview on HN

> In a world where open-weight models dominate, the proprietary frontier models of Anthropic and OpenAI will find it virtually impossible to charge monopolistic pricing.

It'll never be economical to run open-weight models compared to paying per token from the big providers. The cost is going to be roughly proportional to energy inputs over time, and they're going to be the ones that have the scale and engineering ability to knock it down.


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bryanlarsentoday at 8:16 PM

But it will be much more economical to pay per token to discount providers running open weight models.