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by tarruda 462 days ago
Is "OpenAI" the only AI company that hasn't released any model weights?
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They did release Whisper which to be fair has been incredibly helpful for a few of my projects.
A very long time ago in AI time
They updated also whisper with v3 large turbo few months ago that is significantly faster with almost same performance.
Anthropic hasn't released anything either AFAIK
They need to open source Sonnet 3.7.

I know they won't, but a man can dream.

I'd wish people stop using "open sourcing" when speaking about models.

Open sourcing is about being able to change and replicate builds, they make the models "freely available" but the recipe on how they are made is kept secret.

It's akin to being able to download Windows shareware executables and calling that "open source" when nothing related to how the executables are build is available.

Even if they did release the code, that would not help you much unless you have the $ for traning and the talented individuals for pipelining and distributed training.
Well, yeah. They need to do that, too!
would you be able to run Sonnet 3.7 on a consumer computer though?
You can't with DeepSeek either but it has aided open source models significantly by being open source.
The new M3 Ultra Mac Studio (512GB version) seems to be capable of running DeepSeek R1 in Q4
"AI company" makes this an unreasonable wide question but I'll assume you mean of the big players in this ecosystem. I miss later models from Grok and xai, which don't seem to care about sharing models either
Only if you give xAI credit for releasing grok-1, which is not a very useful model.