Plain Strata: Somebody Has to Sign, Open AI Models Now Come With a Revenue Line
An AI model is a very large pile of numbers in a file, so for three years the only thing standing between anyone and the best open ones was physical: the memory to hold them and the machines to run them. On August 12 a lab in Hangzhou published its largest model ever, 2.4 trillion of those numbers, under a new license that is free until your AI business passes fifty million dollars of revenue in any twelve months, at which point you stop being a downloader and become someone who has to come and negotiate. That is a toll booth rather than a speed limit, placed exactly where a toll is…
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