> The spigot can be turned off at any time.

True. And it's possible that this has already happened at Alibaba Qwen - at least for the smaller models that people had a chance of running at home (122B and smaller).

We'll see. The qwen team has always released a few close to sota but proprietary models in between tgeir open releases. We did get 3.6 35B and 27B so its not all set in stone yet.

Its higley unlikely we get another open llama model though after the llama4 flop, even if their muse spark seems pretty good.

Has it though? They've been releasing free models interpersedwith the "Max" models for quite some time.