Simon Willison’s Weblog

20th April 2025

Now that Llama has very real competition in open weight models (Gemma 3, latest Mistrals, DeepSeek, Qwen) I think their janky license is becoming much more of a liability for them. It's just limiting enough that it could be the deciding factor for using something else.

Posted 20th April 2025 at 4:10 pm

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This is a note by Simon Willison, posted on 20th April 2025.

open-source 302 ai 1977 generative-ai 1753 llama 80 local-llms 155 llms 1720 meta 36 qwen 55 ai-in-china 94 janky-licenses 6

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