My impression is that with the latest round of high-profile releases, the open-weight "market" is coalescing around two players, DS4 Flash for speed and GLM 5.2 for smarts. Qwen is being left behind to pick up the scraps for the terminally GPU-poor.

We know they have what it takes to fight back, and they know it... so I agree, there's no reason not be optimistic about future Qwen releases. But then I've never really understood what motivates these releases in the first place.