When 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'

When 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.