Because there is no money in making them closed. Open weight means secondary sales channels like their fine tuning service for enterprises [0]. They can't com

Because there is no money in making them closed. Open weight means secondary sales channels like their fine tuning service for enterprises [0]. They can't compete with large proprietary providers but they can erode and potentially collapse them. Open weights and research builds on itself advancing its participants creating environment that has a shot at proprietary services. Transparency, control, privacy, cost etc. do matter to people and corporations. [0] https://mistral.ai/solutions/custom-model-training https://mistral.ai/solutions/custom-model-training