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Sorry to be pedantic, but I think it’s important not to call these models “open source”. Open weight is the equivalent of a compiled binary that can be run locally, so you’re basically getting Windows where it’s legal to reverse engineer, not Linux. The weights are permissively licensed, so the community is still free to quantize, fine-tune, reap, etc., which is analogous to something like Tiny11. Without the training data and the pipeline code, though, if Alibaba or Moonshot decide to go closed, the community won’t be able to fork their models and meaningfully continue development.
It’s better than what we are getting from “OpenAI” or Anthropic, but these Chinese companies aren’t as altruistic as it might seem. I anticipate they may go closed once they deem it in their own best interest to do so.
Fair enough. No one was saying they are altruistic 😉