Truly, and then they decided to fight an economic war with Russia evidently not realizing that Russia can just export resources to other countries.

The only question is whether it’ll be through political capture or open force.

Well these companies have a very specific business model which is to rent out LLMs as a service, and that business model is now going away.

meanwhile in the real world https://www.wsj.com/world/russia-is-churning-out-smart-cheap-new-weapons-faster-than-ukraine-or-the-u-s-c817d014

go back to reddit fash

s/Ukraine/NATO

Yup, Europeans are in a particularly bad spot though because their energy has been cut off. They’re almost entirely dependent on what trickle they get from the US now.

Because Europeans are vassals on a very short leash.

more like the US is acting like a rabid dog that’s been cornered

Indeed, the low end is what I’m most excited about. Qwen 3.8 27b is already comparable to Opus 4.5, so if next version is as good as Fable, that’s good enough for vast majority of things people need to do. And while I’m really thankful that Chinese companies choose to release their models in the open, its far better to run your whole tool chain locally end to end.