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Nathan Lambert Says Chinese Open Model Labs Have Met Their Weight Release Promises
- Who
- Nathan Lambert
- What
- comments on Chinese open model labs’ track record of meeting promised weight release timelines
- Quote
Very interesting how the open model labs in China always have delivered on their promises of when weights come out.
What happened
Nathan Lambert says Chinese open model labs have consistently delivered weights on their promised schedules, but predicts that one will eventually back out of a model timeline. He links to a post stating that K3.1 weights dropped under a MaaS and revenue gated license.
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See the full storyNathan Lambert Discusses Chinese Labs’ Open Model Weight Release TimelinesVery interesting how the open model labs in China always have delivered on their promises of when weights come out. Will be telling when one of them finally backs out of a certain model timeline (feels inevitable). https://twitter.com/xeophon/status/2118004435368792068
K3.1 weights dropped MaaS + revenue gated licenseView the quoted post on X
The story so far
Nathan Lambert said Chinese open model labs have consistently released model weights when promised, and predicted that one of them will eventually miss a promised timeline. He linked to a post saying K3.1 weights were released under a license gated by model-as-a-service access and revenue.
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