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by gigatexal 321 days ago
M3 Max 128GB here and it’s mad impressive.

Im spec’ing out a Mac Studio with 512GB ram because I can window shop and wish but I think the trend for local LLMs is getting really good.

Do we know WHY openAI even released them?
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diggan 321 days ago
> Do we know WHY openAI even released them?

Regulations and trying to earn good will of developers using local LLMs, something that was slowly eroding since it was a while ago (GPT2 - 2019) they released weights to the public.

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Epa095 321 days ago
If the new gpt 5 is actually better, then this oss version is not really a threat to Openai's income stream, but it can be a threat to their competitors.
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lavezzi 320 days ago
> Do we know WHY openAI even released them?

Enterprises can now deploy them on AWS and GCP.

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