The last 'big thing', was Ornith-1.5. And its really a creatively post-trained Qwen3.5.
Why has the release of open weights models stalled? they were on a fairly predictable schedule, coming out just before or just after any given surge in frontier models; but now it seems that everyone is just scrambling for coin.
iab•7h ago
sparse-Matrix•6h ago
And to be honest, many of those models are not free to use from their providers.
That is, unless you have the hardware to be a provider yourself.
Do that again, and show me all the 37B and smaller LLMs that have made the scene, and I think you'll see what I mean.
Its a far shorter list.