a16z (@a16z) “Simon Mo and Matt Bornstein on why open-weight models matter: cost and control.” — TopicDigg

Simon Mo and Matt Bornstein on why open-weight models matter: cost and control. "Open weight absolutely matters in the ecosystem. The world cannot just be controlled by proprietary APIs, where open weight, open development and research of these models are blocked or banned." "There's almost two pieces to this. There's the cost thing, where the closed models are too expensive, and then there's the control thing, where I want to be in control of my infrastructure and in control of the model. If I need to extend it or put on my own guardrails or anything." "Control matters a lot over the last few years, and then cost just started to matter over the last few months... It's about controlling the system performance against what they're paying for." "For a voice agent company, they want to control their own model so that it can make sure the model actually responds by the required time... This sometimes is only you can do with your controlled intelligence... versus signing up for relying on your critical infrastructure with a proprietary API where they might go down any time." @simon_mo_ @BornsteinMatt