Model WatchQwen 2.5 and Qwen3 made open models feel globalAlibaba's Qwen releases showed that the open-weight race was no longer centered on one country, one lab, or one model shape.April 30 2025//6 min read#qwen#alibaba#open weightsOpen post→
Model WatchLlama 3 and 3.1 made open weight the default baselineMeta's 2024 Llama releases changed the question from whether to test open weights to where they fit in the stack.July 24 2024//5 min read#meta#llama#open weightsOpen post→
Model WatchMixtral made open weights feel usefully weirdMixtral 8x7B made sparse open-weight models feel like a practical path instead of a research curiosity.December 12 2023//5 min read#mistral#mixtral#open weightsOpen post→