Well, Google does release mini open versions of their models. https://deepmind.google/models/gemma/gemma-4/
replyAnd they're incredibly good for their size.
replyWhich, unfortunately is still slow unusable garbage compared to fronteir models.
replyNot at all, it's more than enough for a large range of tasks. As for slow, that's just a function of how much compute you throw at it, which you actually control unlike with closed weights models.
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