Ask HN: What happened to open weights models?

4 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by sparse-Matrix

Item id: 50158840

2 Comments

iab

8 hours ago

I mean:

  - Aug 26: GLM-5.3 Flash, Qwen3.8 Flash Next
  - Aug 28: GLM-5.3, Tencent Hy4 Preview
  - Aug 31: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
  - Sep 3: Ling-3.0 Flash Fin
  - Sep 8: Ling-3.0 Flash VL
  - Sep 10: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
  - Sep 22: Xiaomi MiMo V2.6
  - Oct 3: Aleph Alpha Kolibri-1
  - Oct 13: Ling-3.1 Flash
  - Oct 15: Meta Muse Spark Open, NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Bolt, StepFun Step 5 Preview
  - Oct 16: Reflection Beam 1.0
  - Oct 17: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 pt 2

sparse-Matrix

7 hours ago

Your point is taken, and I suppose I should have been articulate; but these are all huge models, beyond the ability of most of us common folk to load up on a PC and run.

And to be honest, many of those models are not free to use from their providers.

That is, unless you have the hardware to be a provider yourself.

Do that again, and show me all the 37B and smaller LLMs that have made the scene, and I think you'll see what I mean.

Its a far shorter list.