alt Hacker NewsIf they stop releasing their larger models because they want to monetize, would we expect them to release better small models that can outcompete those?
If they stop releasing their larger models because they want to monetize, would we expect them to release better small models that can outcompete those?
there's pros and cons to it for them. Clearly, they get good branding (at least in enthusiast circles). Perhaps more important is they get community work on optimization. There have been significant performance uplifts on the Qwen3.6 models from the open-source community since they were launched (at a minimum, multi-token prediction is now working with them. It is almost a 2x token generation speedup)
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