Open source models are having a moment

It is clear open source models and harnesses are having a moment. There’s a few factors at work. 1/ It is now obvious that you can catch up to near-SOTA performance and do so with a clear training lineage. See Thinking Machines Inkling launch today. 2/ There are several well-funded, talented teams building open weight models now in the US and abroad. Along with the explosion of other near SOTA…