Anyone else completely tuning out these massive "open weight" drops?
Summary
A community member expresses frustration that massive open-weight models like GLM-5.2 (753B parameters) are impractical for local self-hosting due to extreme VRAM requirements, arguing the trend undermines the original spirit of the local AI community.
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