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paxyslast Friday at 5:26 PM9 repliesview on HN

Unless you are hosting it yourself on your own infrastructure it absolutely can be taken away.


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atherton94027last Friday at 5:36 PM

For all intents and purposes you'll be able to move an open weight model wherever you want.

I really dislike this rhetoric, you sound like the FSF guys who are like "you're not free until you're running coreboot with zero binary blobs". Sure they have a point but also, most people are fine running regular linux.

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GTPlast Friday at 5:46 PM

Still, with the same model being served by multiple providers, it is much less likely to disappear entirely, even if you would like to keep using a cloud provider. Worst-case scenario, you change providers. Or you use OpenRouter as a proxy.

dgellowlast Friday at 6:32 PM

There is actual market competition to host open models. If one provider stops offering a model you likely can find another provider that will

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amunozolast Friday at 5:27 PM

But you have multiple providers, not just one.

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theptiplast Friday at 7:20 PM

No. As long as you downloaded the weights, you can run them somewhere.

koolalayesterday at 5:11 AM

No it can't you can take it where ever you want. It is yours not theirs.

supern0valast Friday at 6:59 PM

>Unless you're running Linux yourself, it can absolutely be taken away.

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GaggiXlast Friday at 5:28 PM

Popular open models on Openrouter have dozens of providers.

greenavocadoyesterday at 6:34 AM

I just want personal agency