The web API based licensing scheme is dumb and bad. It’s including a buggy whip holder on a model T thinking. The license should be that they sell a license for use of the weights. They can also sell a SaaS that does a web API to use the weights. But the weights are the thing other businesses actually want and it’s controlling and obviously a monopoly play to not sell the weights. Other businesses have an obvious incentive to only work with companies that sell weights so as to prevent their being mere serf’s on someone else’s SaaS farm.