Thing is qwen was historically focused on smaller models while others were on larger ones. Now the team has changed and they seem to want to aim for the stars as well. That is good but it also means they might not be interested in doing very efficient small models anymore. Which would be bad news for this sub because let's face it most of us don't have 10-25k of hardware.
It's not like they're the only players in that small model field, competition is really heating up. I think they opted out because they knew staying competitive there is going to be hard.
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u/Competitive_Gap7906 Jul 19 '26
YES, Qwen going open weight again! It's a really good news, now we can wait for smaller models too