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The mechanism by which open-source weights constrain pricing is: once weights are released under a permissive license such as Apache 2.0, anyone with sufficient VRAM can self-deploy, marginal cost degenerates to electricity and hardware depreciation, and vendor pricing is capped by the cost of the self-hosted alternative.
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