Four major open-weight releases in 72 hours; only NVIDIA's fits 24GB

Meta, NVIDIA, Reflection and DeepSeek shipped open-weight models within days. Meta's 816B Muse Spark Open needs multiple high-memory Mac Studios, while NVIDIA's 2-bit Nemotron 3.5 Bolt fits in 22GB. DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash is MIT-licensed and Reflection's Beam Apache 2.0, making licenses as notable as parameter counts.

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