Confusing headline/article. Darkbloom does not serve proprietary models. It is competitive for smaller models. best price for qwen 3.8 27b.
The actual competition problem is from deepseek which has open sourced its inference server architecture on Nvidia (and Huawei) datacenter cards, and deepseek v4.1 flash is one of the best combos of good, fast, cheap. But it needs a mac ultra for q4, and datacenters much faster/cheaper with batch service. Qwen 4 is coming out next week with 2 good models that fit under 128gb.
As I understand, only 27B is known to come out as open weight, Max and Plus are API-only anyway and it’s suspected that so is Flash. Makes sense tbh, they’ve established their position in the market, now it’s time to stop giving people better and better models they can run locally. It eats into their profits.
Max has always been API/proprietary. Plus has shifted between the 2, but could very well be API only. Flash the 120b parameter model was new in 3.8. Current king with strata, and I’d be surprised if it wasn’t open. 27b is what drove 5090 to $7000, though flash next is the real 3.8 king.
Confusing headline/article. Darkbloom does not serve proprietary models. It is competitive for smaller models. best price for qwen 3.8 27b.
The actual competition problem is from deepseek which has open sourced its inference server architecture on Nvidia (and Huawei) datacenter cards, and deepseek v4.1 flash is one of the best combos of good, fast, cheap. But it needs a mac ultra for q4, and datacenters much faster/cheaper with batch service. Qwen 4 is coming out next week with 2 good models that fit under 128gb.
As I understand, only 27B is known to come out as open weight, Max and Plus are API-only anyway and it’s suspected that so is Flash. Makes sense tbh, they’ve established their position in the market, now it’s time to stop giving people better and better models they can run locally. It eats into their profits.
Max has always been API/proprietary. Plus has shifted between the 2, but could very well be API only. Flash the 120b parameter model was new in 3.8. Current king with strata, and I’d be surprised if it wasn’t open. 27b is what drove 5090 to $7000, though flash next is the real 3.8 king.
Qwen 4 next week ? Got info on this ? I just managed to make glm 5.3 flash run on my system.