I know someone will hound me on the definition of open source but... I'd bet on one of four things 1. Early access for a fee. Get the latest model at a cost,

I know someone will hound me on the definition of open source but... I'd bet on one of four things 1. Early access for a fee. Get the latest model at a cost, they're later fully open sourced. 2. Sell commercial use licenses. Get and validate the model works for you easily, then buy a license. Split by company revenue if you want to 3. Sell hosted versions - these things require annoying tech to host, paying for someone else to manage running machines can help (possibly combined with a license around not setting up a resale of the LLM) 4. Sell the service of producing (and possibly hosting) custom models. Prove your worth with the open source ones, so you're a trusted person to come to in order to get a model custom made.