Releasing the weights for a 1T+ parameter model doesn't really help "the little guy" when it costs ~$50K per H200 and 8 of them aren't enough to run a single node.
Somehow this plan manages to lean into every single bad outcome
> The big companies can afford the compliance teams and lawyers to keep up, and each new requirement makes it harder for anyone else to catch them
It also takes a lot to do anything with a 1T+ parameter model. Arguably there is still an immense capital moat. So I'm not sure it would even have the effect the author intends.
Providers can compete on cost which is a small but positive outcome. It also encourages providers to find more efficient ways to serve models which also lowers cost.
That said, these frontier models are still astronomically huge.
If you are selling the code as the product, it could be said to be an “actual” software product, rather than a mechanism for selling other products, or software as a substrate for some other business.
Those other businesses aren’t any less valid, of course. They just aren’t software businesses. They are businesses that (quite sensibly) use software.
Is Facebook, a company that build software to sell ads, a software company or an ad company? I think its a bit bikesheddy, if not pointless, to try to confine companies to labels like this.
We live in a time now where libraries are free and plentiful and pretty good. It is easy to forget that this was not the case for the vast majority of time that computers have existed.
Chrome’s original design definitely predates our current rich ecosystem. Plus, V8 and Chrome’s performance profile are demanding enough that there would be a pretty high bar for those dependencies anyway.
Chrome was invented in 2008. Abseil[1] didn't exist publicly until 2017, derived partly from Chromium.
HarfBuzz wasn't ported to C++ until 2010. I don't know the entire constellation of libs Chrome would use if it was designed in C++ today, but I bet a lot of them didn't exist before Chrome or were even created partly as a downstream byproduct of Chromium.
In other ecosystems: if Chrome were designed in Rust in 2008, there would be no crates.io to pull from. There would be no NPM, since Node followed V8/Chrome's invention in 2009. Maven Central had ~50K packages in 2009[2], which was a lot back then. In 2026, Maven Central hosts over 3 million.
I think you've come from an npm world because c++ still doesn't have a great library ecosystem if thats what you mean.
> In other ecosystems: if Chrome were designed in Rust in 2008, there would be no crates.io to pull from. There would be no NPM, since Node followed V8/Chrome's invention in 2009. Maven Central had ~50K packages in 2009[2], which was a lot back then. In 2026, Maven Central hosts over 3 million.
Yeah, this is all web development stuff.... Doesn't apply to c++
We don't charge any subscriptions or fees. We're not open-source, but definitely considering it, has been highly requested. Business model TBD, right now we're focusing on making a product people love.
i was avoiding the harness wars, but a friend recommended it and i just switched to it from codex... and i feel like i just leveled up. what sells it for me is that it uses LSP's to edit the files. so much faster and more accurate edits.
use it with ACP through Zed and you get rid of all the TUI graphics nonsense...
Yes, there are many ways to do that now, in under 5 minutes. Cloudflare will set all of that up just fine. GSuite is much easier to set up than CPanel.
Somehow this plan manages to lean into every single bad outcome
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