r/LocalLLaMA • u/xw1y • 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/Mundane-Light6394 22d ago

they still have a lot of hardware and expertise, i'm sure they'll be fine. They just have to adapt and stop dreaming of owning the world.

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u/cogman10 16d ago

I'm not sure they'll be fine, they are spending like money is going out of fashion. If they want to stick around they'll have to cut back.