License excludes EU, UK, South Korea
The license bans use in those regions, which commenters read as Baidu offloading AI Act and similar regulatory risk onto downstream users rather than something it will actually enforce.
Base model releases are valuable
Many welcomed a base model because it lets others post-train it for their own needs, though they debated how much of the total training cost post-training now takes.
Open weights as alignment strategy, disputed
One commenter argued that spreading base models widely balances out misalignment. Others countered that a single misaligned powerful model could be catastrophic because attack is easier than defense.