Western Open-Weight Models Are Catching Up to Chinese Ones
scaling01 · x · 2026-07-16
The author believes people should stop asking "how far behind are Chinese open-weight models compared to Western ones," and instead ask "how far behind are Western open-weight models compared to Chinese ones."
The post quotes a lengthy review of a new open-source/open-weight model: it features an MoE architecture with 975B total parameters / 41B activated parameters, is trained on 45 trillion tokens, and supports text, image, and audio reasoning. However, its benchmark scores aren't particularly impressive, feeling like another Kimi-K2.6, and to some, it seems rushed out before subsequent versions are fully ready.
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