The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models

Re:The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models by ed_elliott_asc on Thursday June 25, 2026 @04:05AM (#48670402)

Won’t all they need to do is say “best in class, latest models, fastest” and wine and dine a few execs and those enterprise deals will be signed?

In this case the people tasked with using the product won’t actually mind.

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Re:The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models by actionfromafar on Thursday June 25, 2026 @04:20AM (#48670524)

Yes, exactly that. Be Azure and Office 365 and Sharepoint and AWS where everyone else is Debian Stable on a USB thumbdrive.

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Re:The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models by fragmede on Thursday June 25, 2026 @04:37AM (#48670651)

Office 365? Ew, Google docs, please.

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Re:The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models by NitpickLawyer on Thursday June 25, 2026 @04:22AM (#48670546)

No one is getting fired for using SotA.

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Re:The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models by spwa4 on Thursday June 25, 2026 @04:29AM (#48670599)

If the price difference is 2x? Sure.

If the price difference is 50x? No way.

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Re:The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models by brainwad on Thursday June 25, 2026 @04:43AM (#48670696)

So long as the benefit:cost ratio is still sufficiently high, I don't think anyone gets fired for not scrimping. Better to encourage positive EV behaviour by your employees than to scare them away by firing them for not being perfectly optimal.

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Re:The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models by ThunderSizzle on Thursday June 25, 2026 @05:34AM (#48671106)

The CEO won't get in trouble, but the employee who can't justify a bad result/prompt?

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Re:The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models by RobotToaster on Thursday June 25, 2026 @05:00AM (#48670856)

Tell that to Oracle

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Re:The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models by watwut on Thursday June 25, 2026 @05:56AM (#48671237)

Accenture says "yeah totally CEOs will pay a lot for literal nothing"

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Re:The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models by dualvariable on Thursday June 25, 2026 @01:11PM (#48676414)

Laughs in 2005-era VMWare and EMC...

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Re:The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models by saltcured on Thursday June 25, 2026 @12:21PM (#48675683)

Well, getting laid off during the bankruptcy spiral is a form of firing.

But that is months away, so not my problem?

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