Crowdfunding Custom Open Models? A Proposal for Qwen3.8 35B MoE
eapache · reddit · 2026-08-24
Addressing the persistent community demand for specific local models like Qwen3.8 35B MoE, the author proposes crowdfunding via platforms like Kickstarter. If each requester contributes $5, the cumulative amount might incentivize labs to train specific model sizes or architectures, leveraging their existing hardware and data pipelines where marginal training costs are relatively low.
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