The AI You Pay For Won't Let You Build Your Own AI
The biggest AI labs ban you from using their models to build competing models. Open models don't, and Dropstone CLI runs on them.
The script
You can pay for the smartest A.I. in the world... and it's against the rules to use it to build another one.
The biggest labs write it in: don't use our models to build competing models.
You see, if that's the rule... only a few companies get to build the next A.I.
But some models are open. Anyone can download them, study them, and build on them.
Dropstone C L I runs on open models like these. DeepSeek. Kimi. G L M.
So building A.I. isn't locked inside a few companies... it's in everyone's hands.
Because right now...
The facts, checked
- Anthropic's terms restrict using its services "to develop any products or services that compete with our Services, including to develop or train any artificial intelligence or machine learning algorithms or models". Re-check the current wording and date before publishing.
- OpenAI's Terms of Use prohibit using Output "to develop models that compete with OpenAI". Re-check before publishing.
- Google's Gemini API terms prohibit using the Services to develop models that compete with them. Re-check before publishing.
- Dropstone CLI's model tiers route to open-weight models: DeepSeek V4 (Flash/Pro), Kimi K2.7 Code / K2.6 and GLM-5.2 (dropstone-server documents/03-PROVIDER-ROUTING.md).
- Licence check needed: earlier versions were permissively licensed (DeepSeek V3/R1 MIT, Kimi K2 modified MIT, GLM-4.5 MIT). Confirm the current licences for V4, K2.7 and GLM-5.2 before saying "anyone can build on them".
- Accuracy guardrails: base the claim on the published terms, not on "it refuses research"; don't claim the models run locally (Dropstone serves them through hosted providers); no unmeasured speed or "higher research" claims.
