Re:Muse Spark Open
by isityettime on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:55PM
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Then it's not open-weight. Open-weight means "weights available under an open-source license", and licenses prohibiting commercial use are not open-source.
The nearest analogue would be "weights available", I guess.
Meta did this from the very beginning with the original Llama's. Open weights, but you have to use an account with them and agree to an EULA.
There's obvs decreased price competition, but it also does help with ensuring model quality.
Quite a lot of providers on OpenRouter run degraded or broken models. I think some is deliberate, but I think a lot is just providers not setting up models properly; especially with the rush to day zero models.
Re:Muse Spark Open
by AtHeartEngineer on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:00PM
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ya especially because it's huge, you aren't running this on your desktop
The usual effect of separate licensing is decreased price competition from public providers (like we saw with Kimi K3). I guess it's better for the providers if the price is fixed: any efficiency improvements directly improve margin rather than driving prices down over time. Still, to provide my own anecdata, the main thing keeping me on a paid subscription is token costs for the more capable models.