Comment by mattmanser

I just don't believe you.

We can all see the vast gulf between paid + open AI in image and video, it's really visible. Compare Grok to wan or LTX or whatever and the difference is vast. There is no debate that those sort of models are 3 or 4 generations behind, because you can't argue with your eyes.

But DIYers like you claim that text LLMs are up to scratch with the frontier models?

Again, I simply don't believe you. I can't be bothered to download like however many GB it is to find out, because the result is going to be completely underwhelming and going back to 2023.

And worse, when these 'open' models do start getting good, what makes you think these companies will carry on open sourcing their models?

At the moment they're trying to stay relevant, get investment. When these models do start getting good, they won't give away the weights, they'll sell them.

They're not actually open.

And then in a year or two your 'open' model will be horrifically out-of-date with completely out of date knowledge, because you can't add to the knowledge of the model, it's stuck at whatever date the data it was trained on finished.

So in a year or two, those models will be worthless. That's why Ali, Meta, etc. are giving them away.