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Undercutting other frontier models with your open source one is not an anti-investor move.

It is what China has been doing for a year plus now. And the Chinese models are popular and effective, I assume companies are paying for better models.

Releasing open models for free doesn’t have to be charity.

their promise to release an open weights model predates this round of funding by, iirc, over half a year.

Yeah but they never released until now.

Maybe someone got tired of waiting paid them to release something actually open