Comment by simplyluke
2 days ago
I'm convinced a lot of the anti-open-weight model comments at this point are inorganic traffic - there's trillions in investor money riding on a world where these models aren't cheap commodities. Having actually used things like the recent GLM, Kimi, and Qwen I think any edge the labs have is marginal at most and actually prefer the open weight models in most day to day usage.
Anthropic's recent releases are wordy to the point of exhaustion. Every time I use opus recently I find myself wanting to yell "GET TO THE POINT" at a terminal, which is exacerbated by it being slow.
When stuff like this: https://doublespeed.ai/ exists I don't find that hard to believe at all, although it cuts both ways
Backed by a16z... yep, that tracks
Amazing, looking forward to stuff like this killing social media. Or at least forcing the use of robust ID/KYC checks to verify human accounts.
Why are you convinced of that? Pretty much every time I see statements like that online, I can find plenty of organic traffic supporting it, not everything is a bot.
I just wouldn't bias myself that way, most people haven't really used local models. This stuff is pretty much all subjective evaluation, there's plenty of reasons for people to favor certain models or disfavor others.
Opus is pretty dumb and lazy nowadays, cancelled my subscription.