alt Hacker NewsBack when deepseek came out and people were tripping over themselves shouting it was so much better than what was out there, it just wasn’t good.
It might be this model is super good, I haven’t tried it, but to say the Chinese models are better is just not true.
What I really love though is that I can run them (open models) on my own machine. The other day I categorised images locally using Qwen, what a time to be alive.
Further even than local hardware, open models make it possible to run on providers of choice, such as European ones. Which is great!
So I love everything about the competitive nature of this.
If you thought DeepSeek "just wasn't good," there's a good chance you were running it wrong.
For instance, a lot of people thought they were running "DeepSeek" when they were really running some random distillation on ollama.