Tiny AI labs with a fraction of Google's resources still turn out amazing open weights. But besides the logistics, the other aspect is can I use it? Gemini (and some other models) have a habit of dropping conversations altogether if it's "uncomfortable" with your question. Recently I was just asking it about financial implications of the war. It decided my ideas were so crazy that I must be upset, and refused to tell me anything else about finance in that chat. Whereas other models (not abliterated, just normal models) gave me information without argument, moralizing, or gaslighting. I think most people are gonna prefer the non-nerfed models, even if they aren't SOTA, because nobody wants to have an argument with their computer.