Why did Qwen stop producing open models? They've gone from building the best open models ~1 year ago to producing like the 10th-best closed models. I don't understand this pivot at all.

Edit: I saw online they do in fact plan to release this openly at some point – x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2078759124914098291

They've announced that they're releasing the weights for a 2.4T model soon:

https://xcancel.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2078759124914098291

It's not a pivot, giving away the weights was a marketing strategy that they don't need to keep up with.