I’m admittedly not an expert, I’ve not had the time or energy to try out many of these new American open weight models.
I’ll just say this, we obviously all know they (American open weight models) are playing catch-up to the competition. So if your reaction is “why would I use this over Qwen this, or Deepseek that” you’re really missing the mark.
Yeah, they are all going to be behind on benchmarks for now. Nobody realistically expects some American open weight model to come out of nowhere and beat Qwen/ Deepseek/ et cetera. But there has been a flurry of new releases from this segment, and it’s interesting to me to watch how it develops.
There an irony to your statement...since this model seems to be quantized version of Qwen Flash Next + some sort of post quantize training.