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How much would it cost to license one? Probably less than renting servers.

The on-device models that Apple distilled from Google's server based models are already available to developers to use in their apps at no cost.

We're in a time where devices are becoming more capable and developers are figuring out how to do on-device inference using less resources.

The companies that spent a fortune on AI data centers might as well have built a huge pyre of money for all the "moat" they built with it.

That’s not what I’m saying. They could take an open model, create their own variation of it, then embed that on devices. Just like they have with their OS.