The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models

# Summary DeepSeek V4 costs approximately 50x less than frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic, raising questions about whether the latter companies are intentionally maintaining high prices to create artificial scarcity and premium positioning rather than competing on cost. The author argues that open-weight and truly open-source models represent the future, and expresses concern that Anthropic and OpenAI may use geopolitical fears to lobby for restrictions on open-weight model competition rather than compete directly.