alt Hacker NewsThat's not really true though, providers are deprecating models and I have at least 10 emails to prove it.
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kzrdude • yesterday at 4:09 PM
When the weights are publically available (and open to use), then there's a free market for hosting that model at least. That's not independence for me, but it's lack of vendor lock-in.
For some of the open models, there's a list of 20-30 providers of the same model on openrouter for example, as an example of the supply.
trollbridge • yesterday at 4:28 AM
A provider deprecating a model doesn't mean the .gguf file disappears from my computer.
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Nothing stops you from downloading the model and hosting it on a cloud virtual machine