Building an Open Core Business Model
Talkat Cloud Native StartupFest 2024 · on Tuesday, 2024-03-19· at 14:00· Pavilion 7 | Level 7.3 | Room E01·
summary
Argues that open core is resurging because cloud-native and LLM economics force new tradeoffs, cites 4,000 fine-tuned models on a single Llama 2 fork as evidence of rapid ecosystem growth, recommends a practical split: base model open, fine-tune closed so startups monetize proprietary tuning and runtimes, describes a built runtime (WasmEdge) that runs WebAssembly on Mac GPU, NVIDIA, AMD and NPUs with proprietary plugins for high-performance inference, and reports that hybrid open/closed tooling is already viable.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Open Core revival
- 1:06Open source business models
- 3:57Support and SAS limits
- 7:06Source-available licenses
- 10:17Open core principles
- 12:44Open core in LLMs
- 16:55Why open source matters
- 18:42Open core in AI infrastructure
- 19:45WasmEdge’s open core demo
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