Comment by randbyte

> Releasing open weights seems to be an effort to slow down competition.

Why? I don’t get it. Open weight models enabled a lot more foundational model trainings. I believe R1 was benefited from llama.

The proliferation of alternative, open weight models in turn put heat on the leading labs and forced them to make better models, or squeeze more out of slowing improvements on model capabilities through innovation on harness.

And eventually we the common people benefit, exactly from these competitions