Are Open-Sourcing Older Models Really Useless?
mark_k · x · 2026-07-19
The author argues that **open-sourcing older AI models** offers little to no practical value. Their reasoning is that these models are no longer on the Pareto frontier and have very few real-world use cases, serving at best as "museum exhibits." The post also casually mentions someone questioning whether xAI was supposed to open-source Grok 3.
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