alt Hacker NewsOnce the open weight models are banned in the US, there will be no incentives for major labs and corporations to release open weight models.
Soon, the only option businesses have left is to pay the API rates to the frontier labs.
We might start to see API rates drop, however, due to price wars.
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bel8 • today at 10:45 AM
API price rates drop should slow down if open weight models are banned.
Less competition.
Autious • today at 10:45 AM
Don't really love the data-harvesting potential of that.
> Once the open weight models are banned in the US
Bold assumption. Cryptography as a field had similar attempts at squashing access. Didn't end well for the censors.