Where is America's next great open-weights model? Reddit laments the HF leaderboard
Acrobatic-Laugh1856 · reddit · 2026-10-06
A Reddit post laments that the top open-weights models on Hugging Face are no longer coming from the US, with the frontier open-source field dominated by Chinese and European labs.
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