Sorry I don't understand, you're saying the direct providers aren't the canonical source you'd recommend?

If I was running these on my own machine or GPU wouldn't the argument then be "Well you didn't use the real providers?"

For the record I started doing this approach because the Kimi team released this which was shocking to me: https://github.com/MoonshotAI/K2-Vendor-Verifier

GLM 5.1's smallest model size is 206 GB and really you're probably wanting to run a version that's ~400GB. If you want it to be performant, you're not just running it on a VPS.

And just saying "run it on your own cluster" sort of glosses over the cost of such a cluster.