I think we're all fortunate in that the companies behind the best OSS models, i.e. Meta/llama and Alibaba/Qwen are funding their compute and R&D from secondary business models instead of VC capital or an AI company who's primary business model is direct revenue from their models and will be seeking ROI. That's why I don't expect we can rely on Mistral AI to OSS their best models in the long run since that's their primary business model. This is reflected in their hosting costs which charge a healthy premium that's always more expensive than OpenRouter providers hosting their OSS models.

But I don't see why Meta and Alibaba would stop releasing their best models as OSS, since they benefit from the tooling, optimizations and software ecosystems being developed around their OSS models and don't benefit from a future where the best AI models are centralized behind the big tech Corps. As long as their core business remain profitable I don't expect them to stop improving and sharing their OSS models.