Small Models Show Surprising Potential, Giving Open Source Hope Against Closed Giants
max_paperclips · x · 2026-08-03
The author notes that while many were pessimistic about open-source models competing with the massive closed-source models from giants like OpenAI and Anthropic, recent smaller models (like DS4-flash) prove you can get incredibly close with far fewer parameters.
Institutions like Thinking Machines have successfully released strong models by reusing established training recipes. This implies that if other labs simply follow these new training strategies, they can train highly competitive open-source models on their existing hardware, serving as a massive confidence boost for the open-source ecosystem.
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