Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter

Big day for open source Chinese model releases - DeepSeek-v3-0324 came out today too, an updated version of DeepSeek v3 now under an MIT license (previously it was a custom DeepSeek license). https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/24/deepseek/

Pretty soon I won't be using any American models. It'll be a 100% Chinese open source stack.

The foundation model companies are screwed. Only shovel makers (Nvidia, infra companies) and product companies are going to win.

I still don't get where the money for new open source models is going to come from once setting investor dollars on fire is no longer a viable business model. Does anyone seriously expect companies to keep buying and running thousands of ungodly expensive GPUs, plus whatever they spend on human workers to do labelling/tuning, and then giving away the spoils for free, forever?

Money from the Chinese defense budget?

Everyone using these models undercuts US companies.

Eventually China wins.

And wez the end user get open source models.

Also china doesn't have access to that many gpus because of the chips act.

And i hate it , i hate it when america sounds more communist than china who open sources their stuff because free markets.

I actually think that more countries need to invest into AI and not companies wanting profit.

This could be the decision that can impact the next century.