2023
Mixtral 8×7B
Open-weight sparse mixture of experts: dense-model quality without dense-model cost.
Milestones on the line · ACCESS
Open weights
Strong models became something you can download and run on your own hardware — no internet, no subscription, no owner's permission.
Near-frontier models became downloadable and self-hostable. Access to strong AI stopped depending on a single vendor.
StatusPASSED
TypeMilestones on the line
Marker2025
What exists today6
Researched
2024
Llama 3.1 405B
The first open model comparable in scale to the closed frontier.
2025
DeepSeek-V3 and R1
Strong reasoning at a radically lower training cost.
2025
Qwen 3
A dense open family for every hardware budget.
In progress
сейчас
A six-month lag
Open models trail closed ones by roughly six to twelve months, and the gap keeps opening and closing.
Planned
в планах
Rules for releasing weights
Regulators are debating which capabilities must not be published irreversibly. Nobody has clear lines yet.
Branches
Milestones on the line
To the line