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Rising AI Costs Drive Software Developers to Open-Weight Models

A growing number of software companies are turning to open-weight artificial intelligence models, including Chinese ones, due to the cost of proprietary models from U.S. AI developers, Bloomberg reported Monday (Sept. 21). Open-weight models are typically cheaper and enable firms to create their own models with their own data, thereby cutting the risk of outsourcing […] The post Rising AI Costs Drive Software Developers to Open-Weight Models appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

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