Nemotron, Inkling, Gemma, Trinity Large, Snowflake Arctic were all released/updated in the last 6 months, and there are countless other smaller models out there. US open weight is very far from "dead", and certainly doesn't need Zuck as a savior.
replyAlso IBM Granite has a small thinking model now (though it is slightly exasperating in use)
replyIs Google not gonna make another Gemma or something?
replyEven if they stopped, the Chinese model release hit an all-time high this summer so I think we're good.
replyGoogle doesn’t release big chungus models like this
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