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When the Model Is Free, the Hard Part Gets Harder
MIT-licensed frontier-scale models make the cloud API tax optional. APIs already commoditized access to AI; open weights commoditize the price. Advantage...
MIT-licensed frontier-scale models make the cloud API tax optional. APIs already commoditized access to AI; open weights commoditize the price. Advantage...
A $249 Jetson box running Llama 3 locally will not replace enterprise AI infrastructure by itself. But it puts pressure on the low end of the cloud API market.