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Re:Open models by OpenAI by modeless on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @01:44PM (#44801495)
Nah, these are much smaller models than Qwen3 and GLM 4.5 with similar performance. Fewer parameters and fewer bits per parameter. They are much more impressive and will run on garden variety gaming PCs at more than usable speed. I can't wait to try on my 4090 at home.

There's basically no reason to run other open source models now that these are available, at least for non-multimodal tasks.

Re:Open models by OpenAI by thegeomaster on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @04:13PM (#44803654)
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Re:Open models by OpenAI by tedivm on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @01:55PM (#44801673)
Qwen3 has multiple variants ranging from larger (230B) than these models to significantly smaller (0.6b), with a huge number of options in between. For each of those models they also release quantized versions (your "fewer bits per parameter).

I'm still withholding judgement until I see benchmarks, but every point you tried to make regarding model size and parameter size is wrong. Qwen has more variety on every level, and performs extremely well. That's before getting into the MoE variants of the models.

Re:Open models by OpenAI by modeless on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @02:04PM (#44801846)
The benchmarks of the OpenAI models are comparable to the largest variants of other open models. The smaller variants of other open models are much worse.
Re:Open models by OpenAI by mrbungie on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @02:13PM (#44801952)
I would wait for neutral benchmarks before making any conclusions.
Re:Open models by OpenAI by bigyabai on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @03:25PM (#44803012)
With all due respect, you need to actually test out Qwen3 2507 or GLM 4.5 before making these sorts of claims. Both of them are comparable to OpenAI's largest models and even bench favorably to Deepseek and Opus: https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/62430a...

It's cool to see OpenAI throw their hat in the ring, but you're smoking straight hopium if you think there's "no reason to run other open source models now" in earnest. If OpenAI never released these models, the state-of-the-art would not look significantly different for local LLMs. This is almost a nothingburger if not for the simple novelty of OpenAI releasing an Open AI for once in their life.

Re:Open models by OpenAI by modeless on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @03:46PM (#44803320)
> Both of them are comparable to OpenAI's largest models and even bench favorably to Deepseek and Opus

So are/do the new OpenAI models, except they're much smaller.

Re:Open models by OpenAI by UrineSqueegee on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @04:12PM (#44803633)
I'd really wait for additional neutral benchmarks, I asked the 20b model on low reasoning effort which number is larger 9.9 or 9.11 and it got it wrong.

Qwen-0.6b gets it right.

Re:Open models by OpenAI by bigyabai on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @06:36PM (#44805352)
According to the early benchmarks, it's looking like you're just flat-out wrong: https://blog.brokk.ai/a-first-look-at-gpt-oss-120bs-coding-a...
Re:Open models by OpenAI by nialv7 on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @10:28PM (#44819964)
Looks OpenAI's first mover advantages are still alive and well
Re:Open models by OpenAI by sourcecodeplz on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @03:23PM (#44802979)
From my initial web developer test on https://www.gpt-oss.com/ the 120b is kind of meh. Even qwen3-coder 30b-a3b is better. have to test more.