Comment by rnxrx

The cost issue is obviously of prime importance, but I'd also argue that the transparency of the innovations creates a tremendous cross-pollination, and not only within the Chinese communities but in the US/Europe as well. How many of us are learning the practical aspects of actually running and building AI based primarily on open models? As an example - how far would the work of vLLM or SGLang or even NVIDIA itself (all random examples) be without these models and the challenges they pose?