It was a competition organized by the Korean government but the directive wasn't for the same cause as the writer. It was more for constructing Sovereign AI for the country. Also, all models except Exaone had some weights copied from Chinese models, and from the corporate point of view, developing from-scratch model is not cheap despite the financial support from the government.

Yes, I hope the open model communities will someday be able to run current frontier models which will be able to handle autonomous tasks and the hardware to run it will be served at consumer level; however, like how recycling isn't profitable, no companies will fully commit to the movement. Don't get it twisted, I don't have a solution but maybe a global scale movement to liberate knowledge-library could suffice.