New to playing around with local ai. why are they free?

I am new to playing around with local ai and have a ton to learn about it but I was curious, why are they (who is they?) releasing them for free, don't they want you to pay them to use them, why release free models?

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2026-09-26 17:56 · r/LocalLLaMA
New to playing around with local ai. why are they free?

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