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lukasschwab • today at 1:49 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

I'm not sure I'll do it justice, but one of the general ideas behind open-model initiatives is that the economic impacts of specialized post-training are a fait accompli. OpenAI and Anthropic have spent $many-millions procuring closed posttraining data.

The relevant question here is whether you want open-weight models — projects like Open Athena — to remain or become competitive in the same range of specialties.