Open source AI models are getting really good, but the hype around them is very inconsistent. When DeepSeek first dropped their model, everyone on my timeline was saying open source might replace frontier models. It was all anyone talked about for a few days. Then it went completely quiet for a couple of months. Then DeepSeek released another model and everyone got excited all over again. Same thing happened with GLM and Qwen. One big day of hype, then silence until the next…