Okay, they are paying Anthropic, I don't really care about the semantics when at the end of the day they get an output they didn't get before.
Open weight models run on consumer hardware, if you think corporations will make every single piece of hardware unaffordable then I'm not sure what to tell you.
They are not building anything; they are paying Anthropic to do it.
> Lastly, many, many open weight models exist.
Good luck running them when the megacorporations have bought out all hardware.