What happens to devs if Chinese firms stop releasing free open-source models?
blondewalker · reddit · 2026-11-01
A Reddit thread raises an ecosystem concern: the supply of free open-weight models currently comes largely from Chinese labs, while solo developers and small companies lack the compute to train competing models themselves. The question: if those free releases stop, does the community keep running old models, or does the open-source LLM ecosystem stall?
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