Own Your Weights

The API is a landlord. Weights on disk are a deed.

> the model behind your product can change tone, price, or existence overnight

> deprecations land mid-quarter; prompts rot silently

> rate limits and safety filters get decided in someone else's boardroom

> open weights changed the physics: llama, deepseek, qwen, on your own silicon

> a consumer mac now runs a model that would have topped the leaderboard 18 months ago

> the API is a landlord. weights on disk are a deed.

> renting frontier intelligence is correct for the frontier

> owning last year's intelligence is correct for everything that must keep working

> the sovereignty stack: your data, your weights, your power supply

> every critical workflow deserves a local fallback that answers to you

Appendix · Further Signal

Whoever rents his army serves his supplier. Rent the frontier, own the baseline, keep weights on your own metal.