Comment by HDThoreaun
Comment by HDThoreaun 9 hours ago
The open models suck. AWS hosts them for less than closed models cost but no ones uses them, because they suck.
Comment by HDThoreaun 9 hours ago
The open models suck. AWS hosts them for less than closed models cost but no ones uses them, because they suck.
Why would the open weights providers need their own tools for agentic workflows when you can just plug their OpenAI-compatible API URL into existing tools?
Also, there are many providers of open source models with caching (Moonshot AI, Groq, DeepSeek, FireWorks AI, MiniMax): https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/best-practices/prompt-cach...
It's not the open models that suck, it's the infrastructure around them. None of current "open weights providers" have:
These are solvable without having to pay anything to OpenAI/Anthropic/Google.