alt Hacker NewsCasual consumers are using American models because their usage is low. As usage scales, the economics heavily favor open weight models. The API pricing from American companies is absurd. This is particularly true in an enterprise setting.
Casual consumers are using American models because their usage is low. As usage scales, the economics heavily favor open weight models. The API pricing from American companies is absurd. This is particularly true in an enterprise setting.
Open weight model hosts don't have the compute to meet enterprise demand. A large part of why these models are so cheap is because overall demand for them is incredibly low. Back in May, Gemini alone was doing about a month's worth of Openrouter tokens every day.