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by firebear 27 days ago
> open-weight models let the people who do have the domain expertise build on top of a capable foundation. this doesn't require open models to win the frontier race. it requires them being close enough.

This makes sense to me. Access to top-class open weight models allow for the community to do fine-tunes on low-resource languages such as Kinyarwanda or Luganda, which closed labs may not have time or expertise for.

Multiple ground up initiatives here in Rwanda would not be possible without models such as Qwen or NLLB.

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whats nllb?