Everybody knows about Sora being discontinued, but fewer people have been talking about Alibaba soft-killing the Qwen team and MS poaching people from Ai2. The latter 2 are more regrettable since those groups actually publish their findings and work on open models.

If funding were starting to dry up this is what it would look like. As we're well aware of, open source gets the axe first.

#llm #qwen #olmo