When "open source" means freeware, it's like saying "we want free copies".
What we should be saying is: We want a public, community-ran project that does pretraining and training collectively. This means working on a training corpus in public and somehow coordinating the training work.
This is a complete change of what the term means, It's like how people conflate piracy with theft. Two different things, use different words. Free weights, inference code and chat template is very different from a community-ran LLM project.
What we should be saying is: We want a public, community-ran project that does pretraining and training collectively. This means working on a training corpus in public and somehow coordinating the training work.
This is a complete change of what the term means, It's like how people conflate piracy with theft. Two different things, use different words. Free weights, inference code and chat template is very different from a community-ran LLM project.