The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models (opens in new tab)

Today I was setting up Hermes to see how it does with web research\. I chose DeepSeek V4 because I know it is cheap, but seeing it’s pricing next to Anthropic and OpenAI ‘frontier’ models is crazy\. Nearly a 50x price increase based on tokens alone, let alone how much pondering any of their models might fall into \(using more tokens for the same task\)\. What worries me about this is that Anthropic and OpenAI seem to have backed themselves into a corner of high costs\. Can they reasonably de...