[tomaskafka]

It is amazing, but "open source model" means "model I can understand and modify" (= all the training data and processes).

Open weights is an equivalent of binary driver blobs everyone hates. "Here is an opaque thing, you have to put it on your computer and trust it, and you can't modify it."

[jmiskovic]

That's unfair. Binary driver blobs are blackmail: "you bought the hardware, but parts of the laptop won't work unless you agree to run this mysterious bundle insecurely". Open weight is more like "here's a frozen brain you can thaw in a safe harness to do your bidding".

[pama]

Not equivalent to the binary driver: you can modify it yourself with post training on your own data. So it sits somewhere between NVIDIA userspace drivers and Emacs, or Clade Code and codex-cli. We don’t have good analogies from older generation software.