[sigmoid10]

Distilled is a real downer, but I guess those AI startup CEOs still gotta eat.

[dragonwriter]

The open community has a done a lot with the open-weights distilled models from Black Forest Labs already, one of the more radical being Chroma: https://huggingface.co/lodestones/Chroma

[sigmoid10]

I don't doubt that people can do nice things with them. But imagine what they could do with the actual model.