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It's kind of funny how China is actually doing these things right now while Americans are talking it up. I think what we'll see in practice will be this manifesto applied to China.

And now everybody saw how the US can just cut access to their model at any time too.

Yeah, I guess it is targeted to US techbro audience.

yeah I think that would be a very good outcome

Yes, you can run Qwen 3.6 27b on your laptop and have it do useful work, and it's more capable than frontier models from a year ago or so. https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-27b

For corporate use, it’s very good. But the immediate advantage is cost.

• The open source models are sparse, and use an efficient architecture. They are very efficient to run.

• You can pick from hundreds of competing providers, rent GPUs, or run your own server internally.

I’d say the big unrealized advantage is flexibility. Companies can fine tune the big open models to their specific task or tasks, and even host a “mixture of Loras” as a set of specialized models. They can constrain output at the sampling level, and cache context programmatically. They can use raw completion syntax creatively, or train task vectors real quick. There’s all sorts of neat hacking to be done, but the issue is that 99.9% of businesses have no idea because they’re used to getting tokens from a black box like Claude.

Now… as a pure, turnkey, “cost is no object” agenic worker? Clause is a but better, most of the time. But not always, these days, especially if speed, long context or other things are factors.

Also… the “unspoken” issue is that most big open models are from China.

It’s stupid. It’s just a block of weights in an open source harness, no more security risk than (say) a tire on a car. But try explaining that to decision makers who don’t really explain the tech and are afraid of getting hacked.

But Nvidia has a pretty good big MoE now, so that’s hardly an excuse anymore.

Don't know exactly how it compares but I've measured the electricity increase while running it, something you can run on one graphics card is around the same as a resource intensive video game.

We're not stopping it, failing a major Carrington event that destroys all satellites. We may as well aim to make it less harmful and more beneficial.