alt Hacker NewsYou are right, but this is just the first open-weights model of this family.
They said that they will release several open-weights models, though there was an implication that they might not release the biggest models.
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tristor • yesterday at 2:57 PM
I'm totally fine with that, frankly. I'm blessed with 128GB of Unified Memory to run local models, but that's still tiny in comparison the larger frontier models. I'd much rather get a full array of small and medium sized models, and building useful things within the limits of smaller models is more interesting to me anyway.
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Given that DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi etc have all released large open weight models, I am personally grateful that Qwen fills the mid/small sized model gap even if they keep their largest models to themselves. The only other major player in the mid/small sized space at this point is pretty much only Gemma.