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Tom Aarsen
tomaarsen.com
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I think it's ~3 main factors:
1) people are excited about its multimodal possibilities that they don't really have with their current models,
2) it had good release timing, causing it to become the #1 trending model on hf.co/models which resulted in more eyeballs, and
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2026-10-13T16:40:07.658Z