> No, what he is saying is that benchmarks are static and there is tremendous reputational and financial pressure to make benchmark number go up.

That's a much better way to say it than I did.

These models are known for being open weights but they're still products that Alibaba Cloud wants is trying to sell. They have Product Managers and PR and marketing people under pressure to get people using them.

This Venture Beat article is basically a PR piece for the models and Alibaba Cloud hosting. The pricing table is right in the article.

It's cool that they release the models for us to use, but don't think they're operating entirely altruistically. They're playing a business game just like everyone else.