Comment by embedding-shape

> to me AI models have "always" been single files, as that's what has been the norm in the local image gen business

That doesn't even make sense in the "local image gen business", you don't use a single weights file, you need a bunch of encoders/decoders and what not to actually be able to run the architecture with the weights.

Maybe the tooling you use hides those things from you, but they're still there under the surface.