[idonotknowwhy]

> seen how llama became completely irrelevant in matter of months

Still seems pretty relevant to me:

https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

> Downloads last month 5,232,634

Scout, Maverick (and Qwen3) were a step backwards but so was Claude 3.7 for coding (people stuck with 3.5).

Seems like they can afford to make mistakes for the time being.

> So while inference in itself can be

Isn't it already profitable in some cases? Eg. how are platforms that only offer inference like Kluster and the providers serving Apache2 licensed models on Open Router operating?