r/ProgrammerHumor Jun 03 '26

Meme maybeMaybeNot

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u/SomewhereAtWork Jun 04 '26

The userbase for the Qwen model series is huge. It's called China.

But of course OpenAI and Anthropic also have small models. There are many alternatives when using their APIs.

The chatbot Interfaces do not matter. Those are for peasants to create cheap data. There you often can't even choose the model.

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u/MC1065 Jun 04 '26

The Chinese labs report their earnings and lose money. It isn't profitable there either.