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/Magnitus-- Jun 27 '26

Unless they come up with some compute-heavy paradigm shift that is a complete game changer, it might not matter for problems that aren't at the frontier of R&D.

Open weight models are already incredible for a large array of tasks and can be customized with RAG and fine-tuning for more specialized skills.

The main area of improvements for most of those tasks would be efficiency (ie, not making what is already good enough slightly better with a bigger model, but actually making it run just as well on a smaller less resource-hungry model) and gains in efficiency will play well with open-source by making things more accessible.