Publishing open weights gives me more confidence in the model, and ironically makes me less anxious about making sure I can replace the cloud usage with a local alternative. Whereas I’m very nervous right now with relying on 5.6-Sol - what if they triple the price, nerf it, etc.?
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?
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.
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.