Eventually the frontier labs will try to cut out the middle man once these models prove themselves and start doing partnerships with big firms in the domains, so they can take a % of the profits in perpetuity rather than just taking a one time payment. For example, after Anthropic Galen, they'll do a partnership with Pfizer to generate Ozempic-Superjacked and take 20% royalties on global sales.
The people have a right to make and use whatever models they want, protected by the constitution. At a minimum, the models are described in research papers that are unquestionably protected speech. Skilled devs turn those into programs, also protected speech.
Maybe you're somehow legally allowed to distribute and download the weights, but most of us can't run GLM 5.2 at home.
And.. now I feel the need to look again. Darn, there goes my afternoon
A DeepSeek instance running 24/7 in a cloud provider will beat doing that with Claude which could bankrupt you with 100x more costs, even though it might find more.
And DeepSeek may find enough to keep your engineering team saturated and busy fixing things.
I don't see how.
> but they do have the power to constrain commerce
This is a delusional take. Sorry, but anyone claiming this hasn't used Fable and compared it to the current best open source models. I see a lot of hype posting about GLM5.2. I see absolutely ZERO people using it in production compared to GPT 5.5 or Opus 4.8.
You are way too deep in the HN bubble.
Having growth up in the 90s, it is weird seeing companies share their technology secrets publicly.
And it does, nowadays, give you a bit of a veneer of mere curiosity when you're being accused of massive theft.
But next year we could be in the middle of a massive $600B/yr capital-spending bubble deflating hard with unemployment accelerating towards 10% (or higher).
The internet never failed, but the telcom/dotcom collapse still happened in 2001.