Open weight models don’t train themselves, someone needs to do it, and that costs a lot of money. I guess they’ll want to see an ROI.
Also, "circular financing" is a meme. A private company cannot create money, there is no circularity. NVIDIA may buy services from OpenAI and also sell them GPUs. If a lumberjack buys eggs from his neighbor and also sells him wood to improve his chicken coop, that's not circular financing, just business happening in both directions.
The numbers are staggering eg: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/17/nvidia-financing-open-ai-dat...
Tell me you know nothing about economics without telling me you know nothing about it.
There's a lot of free stuff incurring "real costs" in its production, one more or less doesn't make a shred of difference.
> I agree with you that producers of these models should be able to extract value from their models.
Nobody is stopping them from extracting value but they fail despite being placed in a very advantageous position vis-a-vis others, which tells me, they should call it quits or go open like everybody sane.
Open is the way to go, nothing else works in the field of AI, that's the bitter lesson closed labs are yet to learn.