Comment by Zetaphor

3 months ago

They don't need an excuse to not open the model weights (unfortunately). As far as I know the only western lab to release weights of a former flagship model is xAI with Grok 2. They said they were going to do the same for Grok 3 but nothing so far.

They have no obligation to do any open releases, it's just good PR for recruitment, fundraising, and devrel