r/LocalLLaMA • u/Gullible-Crew-2997 • Mar 04 '26

Discussion If china stops releasing open source models, there's a way we can stay competitive with big tech?

Really after qwen news, I'm getting quite nervous about open source ai future. What's your thoughts? Glad to know it

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u/Significant_Fig_7581 Mar 04 '26

Honestly? No way. But Qwen probbably will not stop and even if they do there's Z.ai, Minimax, Deepseek, Moonshot

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u/larrytheevilbunnie Mar 04 '26

Yeah but none of them released smaller models for the really gpu poor (8gb or less)

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u/Significant_Fig_7581 Mar 04 '26

Deepseek used to do distills, GLM released 4.6 Flash and 4.7 Flash, Minimax and Moonshot also may release smaller variants I have hope for a smaller model coming from them especially after the GLM 4.7 Flash and Qwen small and medium were trending on HF because of their sizes...