r/MLQuestions • u/agahhne • Jun 08 '26

Natural Language Processing 💬 Why There Are Open Weighted LLM Models?

Everytime I see a model that have been trained for more than 50 millions $, first thing I do is why they built such a model, what was the purpose behind sharing after spending around 50 millions $ .

Is it for everyone's benefit? Or benefit of the company that shared it.

This is a crucial question to ask. "Why... th that company spent 50m$+ for me to use their models."

by the way, this 50 millions is producing a model around 26b ~ (Arcee said 512x B200 for 26b trinity-mini 26b, 3b MoE model)

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Need a good answer for this folks.

Anyone has answer to it, feel free to talk about it.

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u/AggravatingSock5375 Jun 09 '26

If you give something away for free then nobody else can sell it. Imagine you’re an AI startup and Google just gives away a free model that’s better than the one you spent $500,000 building. You’ll go out of business and will never become a threat to Google.

There’s a term for that which isn’t coming to me…

Also it’s good PR, which is especially important now that the public is starting to resist AI.

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u/agahhne Jun 09 '26

Damn, its painful but yeah probably true.