Comment by kthinckley
11 hours ago
Google desperately needs to make some leadership changes within their Gemini team now that they've been surpassed by 3-5 open weight models and risk loosing frontier status all together in the near future.
11 hours ago
Google desperately needs to make some leadership changes within their Gemini team now that they've been surpassed by 3-5 open weight models and risk loosing frontier status all together in the near future.
Open weight models aren't likely to be open weight in the long-term. China has started considering export controlling and limiting access to model weights [0].
[0] - https://www.ft.com/content/6049a031-9e9b-464c-97bb-414da04d5...
That contradicts this:
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chinas-xi-touts-open-source-ai-a...
So who even knows.
They don't need to be open weight in the long term; once there's an open-weight Fable-level model with 1M context it'll be pretty much good enough for all coding tasks, no need for new models.