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Open-weight models
AI models whose weights are released publicly for anyone to download, run and fine-tune.
Open weights caught the frontier. The moat is leaking.
When you can download a near-top-tier model for free, 'exclusive access' stops being a business.
Qwen quietly won open-source AI — then half-closed the door
The most-downloaded open model family also just shipped its first closed flagship. Read the signal.
Kimi K2.7-Code: an open model that actually shipped its weights
After months of 'open-weight, weights pending', a refreshingly literal release — and a benchmark caveat you should read before tweeting the number.
Mistral wants €20bn. The valuation is the pitch.
Double the price in months — on revenue that's real but a long way from the number.
MiniMax shipped an 'open-weight' model with no weights. Bold.
Frontier claims, vendor benchmarks, and a Hugging Face link that wasn't there yet.
DeepSeek V4: the benchmark is the distraction. The chip pivot isn't.
1.6 trillion parameters, open weights, cheaper than the competition — and the real news is none of that.
Mistral's free TTS: the scary part isn't the benchmark
Open weights versus a rented-voice empire. The benchmark is the distraction; the business model is the threat.