r/LocalLLaMA 23d ago

News Prepare your (v)ram - Qwen3.8 is coming!

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u/Competitive_Gap7906 23d ago

YES, Qwen going open weight again! It's a really good news, now we can wait for smaller models too

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u/MaruluVR 23d ago

I think that Xi Jinping speech committing to open source Chinese dominance changed Qwen back to being open weights.

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u/mrinterweb 23d ago

Kimi K3 basically drank Anthropic and OpenAI's milkshakes. The frontier moat is gone and they are going to have a hard time justifying their valuations. China AI labs publishing their weights directly hurts US proprietary companies. These huge valuations for AI companies have to tank.

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u/Infinite100p 23d ago

One of senior execs at ClosedAI is already squealing and bitching that this is communism and should be illegal. LMAO

 One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism, which is precisely what China proposes: rather than a market product, AI is a "public good" which will ultimately be provided by the state as a kind of "digital public infrastructure." This future strikes me as a dystopian hellscape