[Wowfunhappy]

Well, Google does release mini open versions of their models. https://deepmind.google/models/gemma/gemma-4/

[deaux]

And they're incredibly good for their size.

[boppo1]

Which, unfortunately is still slow unusable garbage compared to fronteir models.

[deaux]

Not at all, it's more than enough for a large range of tasks. As for slow, that's just a function of how much compute you throw at it, which you actually control unlike with closed weights models.

[kridsdale1]

Depends on your hardware.