[badsectoracula]

The competitor also having ads.

I know Anthropic made these ads about not having ads but Apple also made ads about thinking different, yet once they became successful they ended up thinking the same as every other business.

And once upon a time, Google did not do evil.

[simianwords]

just go to openrouter and there are openweight models hosted by independent providers. why would all of them choose ads?

[Someone1234]

Then OpenRouter has ads, and the models hosted by third-parties have an ad/ad-free tier (heck, even ads injected into the query response stream).

[gloxkiqcza]

That stands today. In the future the SOTA might move to where models of today are no longer competitive and there no open-weight alternatives available anymore. Let’s hope it’s not the case.