@thdxr: people are struggling to understand that "token middlemen have seen growth primarily from open weight model demand" isn…
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The tweet clarifies that growth in token middlemen from open weight models does not imply a decline in demand for frontier AI models.
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@omarsar0: It's one data point, but I think token share for open models will continue to rise. You can get more insights by lookin…
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