James O'Claire personal blog
The unbearable cheapness of open weight models
Today I was setting up Hermes to see how it does with web research. I chose DeepSeek V4 because I know it is cheap, but seeing it’s pricing next to Anthropic and OpenAI ‘frontier’ models is crazy. Nearly a 50x price increase based on tokens alone, let alone how much pondering any of their models might fall into (using…
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AI & Machine LearningTech Industry & Business2026
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| Jun 25, 2026 | The unbearable cheapness of open weight models by ddxv | 203 | 186 |
