A 30B Apache-2.0 model sitting near the intelligence-per-parameter frontier gives you a permissively licensed self-host option — at the cost of being slower and pricier than comparable open weightsA model whose trained parameters are published for anyone to download and run — unlike API-only models you can access but never possess.Full definition → models.
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context window — The maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.
open weights — A model whose trained parameters are published for anyone to download and run — unlike API-only models you can access but never possess.
