Industry Voice: Open Source Hype Overblown, Small Models Lag Behind Frontier
bindureddy · x · 2026-08-03
The author jokes that sentiment on X swings to the extremes every week, noting that the current hype around open-source AI is over the top. While acknowledging that small models like DeepSeek Flash are good, he argues they are only comparable to peers like Llama or Gemini Flash and are nowhere near the true frontier set by closed models that top the leaderboards.
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