alt Hacker NewsInteresting to see the positive sentiment around kimi2.6 qwen3.6 and deepseek relative to the negative. I hope the trend of people appreciating open models continue. They aren't namesakes yet, but it's a higher percentage then I thought it would be. Especially on HN where we are all talking about businesses.
I am upset because now anthropic, openai, meta, etc will continue their smear campaigns here. But I am also happy because it will make HN less useful when they do.
Everything is a give and take I guess. Excited to see where the equilibrium sits
Is it just “smear campaigns”? Don’t get me wrong - I don’t want big tech or big AI monopolies and appreciate the open weight models. But it’s also true that Chinese companies are basically stealing through distillation and also that they censor to align to CCP rules. They’re problematic in a different way.
What I want is more fully open models where everything is shared. Data, training algorithms, weights. That way we can figure out if we should trust it.