r/LocalLLaMA wonders why Chinese open-model labs have gone quiet
The open-model community watches release calendars closely; this is what it expects next.
An image post in r/LocalLLaMA titled "It's been too quiet on the other side of the Pacific" pokes at the lull in new open-weight releases from Chinese labs. Replies mention that Qwen 4 is "supposedly coming out by the end of October" and ask about Kimi, while others push back that labs should release when a model is ready, not to bump a version number.
It scored highest of any thread in our sweep relative to its subreddit's size (about 4,200 upvotes in a 329,000-member community).
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Qwen
After exploring It's been too quiet on the other side of the Pacific, the model family people are waiting on is Qwen.
Alibaba Cloud's family of mostly open-weight large and small language models.
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