No, they don't, they can also be defaulted on/written off. Open weights are there to stay, plus research, plus the GPUs, just the power needs to be paid.

There's a limit to price hikes due to competition, and open weights can't collude so closed weight companies don't have that much wiggle room to raise prices unless they are much better than open weights.

> There's a limit to price hikes due to competition

Unless you say you have the best model in the world, and then everybody will fight to use it.

> No, they don't, they can also be defaulted on/written off.

Bye, bye world economy.