alt Hacker News> Publishing open weights gives me more confidence in the model
Why? It's not like you can audit weights like you can with code.
> what if they triple the price, nerf it, etc.?
What if an open weights infra provider does that? What's the difference?
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You might not be able to audit the weights, but there are people with the skill set to do it.
If providers decide to jack the price, open weights lets you find a new provider without losing your fine tunes and having to re-do workflows, etc like you would if you switched off a frontier lab model.
you keep the model. it's never deprecated. with closed ai, you are forced into a new more expensive model every few months. if an open model infra provider does that, you simply switch to another one. it's not in their interest to do that.
Because I can run Qwen 3.6 or DeepSeek V4 until the end of time if I want to? The model is on HuggingFace; anyone can download it. I have Qwen and Gemma on my laptop right now if I want to use them, even if I decide to go be a hermit who never interacts with the outside world again.