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you keep the model. it's never deprecated. with closed ai, you are forced into a new more expensive model every few months. if an open model infra provider does
by alightsoul 4mo ago
you keep the model. it's never deprecated. with closed ai, you are forced into a new more expensive model every few months. if an open model infra provider does that, you simply switch to another one. it's not in their interest to do that.
- TurdF3rguson 4mo agoThat's not really true though, providers are deprecating models and I have at least 10 emails to prove it.
- alightsoul 4mo agoNothing stops you from downloading the model and hosting it on a cloud virtual machine
- TurdF3rguson 4mo agoCommon sense does, but other than that I suppose you're right.
- trollbridge 4mo agoA provider deprecating a model doesn't mean the .gguf file disappears from my computer.
- AgentMasterRace 4mo agohell yeha bro, I still rock qwen 0.1
- kzrdude 4mo agoWhen the weights are publically available (and open to use), then there's a free market for hosting that model at least. That's not independence for me, but it's lack of vendor lock-in. 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.