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What Is Open-Source AI? A Software Engineering Researcher Explains

Developers say true open-source AI must include source code, weights and training data, while companies are releasing models with different reuse limits.

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Open-source AI models allow anyone to read their inner workings like a book. Utamaru Kido/Moment via Getty ImagesYou’ve probably heard artificial intelligence models described as “open” or “closed.” These are not descriptions of the model’s personality. Large language model AIs like the one under the hood of ChatGPT don’t have actual personalities, despite appearances. The labels refer to whether all of the information about how an AI model work…

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I. The tweet that is not an analysis, but a manifesto Can a Twitter thread contain the road map for the de facto prohibition of open source in artificial intelligence? User Daniel Sánchez (@disier) has published an analysis...

Every year, Switzerland pumps billions of Swiss francs into U.S. tech companies. Now, a network brings together authorities and companies to enable Microsoft, Google and Co. to diverge. Demand is high.

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