Emad says frontier open-weight models now come only from China
emollick · x · 2026-07-21
There are no frontier open-weight models outside China, and the US/EU have little incentive to build one because the cost is high and value capture is low.
The author adds that there are solid mid-tier models, but nothing close to Kimi K3 or GLM-5.2 in the frontier open-weights class.
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