A post says open releases only matter if large models can be served cheaply and reliably
steipete · x · 2026-07-29
A short post says serving large models is hard, quoting a complaint that people are no longer excited about open releases unless they can get a cheap endpoint like a $5 Kimi-K3 API.
The underlying point is operational rather than model-centric: open weights are only useful if they can be served reliably, cheaply, and at scale.
Related event: Kimi K3 Open-Weight Release Sparks Debate on Open Source and Infrastructure(5 posts)→
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