What V4's MIT license achieves institutionally is more consequential than its benchmark position. A closed model that beats GPT-5.5 is a competitive product. An open-weight model that nearly matches it is a pricing floor — a permanent reference point that every enterprise procurement conversation will now cite. The Apache 2.0 weights already available on Hugging Face mean that the cost structure is not contingent on DeepSeek's pricing decisions going forward; organizations can self-host and the economics hold regardless of what any vendor decides to charge next quarter. The April 2026…