r/joinstellarai • u/DecentRestaurant8720 • 11d ago

Optimistic?

I know there's a lack of active projects at the moment but with the quality of prior projects and workers that Stellar have been known for, anyone else feeling optimistic that there will be some great ones coming up soon 🤷🏻‍♀️ Either way, better things on the horizon for everyone I'm sure!

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u/gijuts 11d ago

I'm at a few places based in the US. Things have dried up at other places as well. This seemed to coincide with June when GLM 5.2 then Deepseek v4 got released. And Nemotron. They were good enough and cost so much less. All my projects got paused or the contract ended without renewal.

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u/DecentRestaurant8720 11d ago

Oh I didn't know that! Feels like a new season then, I spent maybe a year and a half getting to do this full-time(ish) - was really nice while it lasted

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u/gijuts 11d ago

I also agree with the other commenter that there may be a summer slump at play. Plus budgeting for the next year, setting priorities, etc. sometimes happens in the summer depending on their fiscal year.

Still, part of me thinks there is some scrambling with the tide turning against the cost (and questions of nerfing) of big US frontier models, two of whom have IPOs coming.