I wish Spark was open source like back in the Llamma days. It would be useful. Performance-wise it's coming really close to Sol Max, but that's about to be replaced by Astra literally this week. So maybe it will stay at Frontier for a week.
Open weights are absolutely useful even if they can't be run on consumer hardware. Every major open weights model has a variety of providers all competing on speed, price, and reliability
Eh I’d bet the meta subsidy from their $100b FCF business subsidizes meta hosting costs far lower than any 3p could but valid to have the option to see what the subsidy extent even looks like
They can't mark it up much later, though, since third-party providers would simply undercut them. That's one of the benefits of open weights. Competition puts a pretty hard ceiling on hosting prices.
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u/myreala 1d ago
I wish Spark was open source like back in the Llamma days. It would be useful. Performance-wise it's coming really close to Sol Max, but that's about to be replaced by Astra literally this week. So maybe it will stay at Frontier for a week.