Meetup

State of Open Weight Models

Date
Wednesday, June 24, 2025
Featuring
Andrew Dunlap, SEP

Overview

Frontier models get all the news, but open weight models have made huge progress. In this presentation, SEP’s Andrew Dunlap explores how open weight models measure up, some of the economics, what it looks like for a developer to host their own open weight model, and the experience they can expect.

Meet the Speaker

Andrew Dunlap

Andrew Dunlap

Senior Software Engineer

Andrew is a Senior Software Engineer with a track record of tackling complex, highly technical problems across a wide range of industries. Since 2015, he’s contributed to projects spanning structural analysis, medical technology, aerospace, cloud-based learning systems, and agricultural automation—bringing thoughtful engineering and steady leadership to every team he supports.

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