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It's just about as open source as OSX, which can be downloaded zero cost here: http://updates-http.cdn-apple.com/2019/cert/061-39476-201910...

I love that Apple made OSX open source.

subygan | parent
we're calling it openweights now. what is a logical push to have a completely new paradigm be compared with traditional software binaries?
a2ff6eeb0 | root | parent
Check the phrase I quoted. Anyways, I guess OSX is open assembly?
mrkeen | root | parent | next
Checked.

  The more open source software out there the better. And the more open weights or even over source AI stuff the better too right?
subygan | root | parent
is it not open assembly?

open weight models are better than open-assembly binaries (as you put it) because models are grown like plants, you can shape the open-weight model in a direction you want by feeding it more data and compute (aka finetuning).

which is something that is impossible in a binary.

embrace the new paradigm and it's tradeoffs. without scoffing at semantics and criticising from an armchair.

a2ff6eeb0 | root | parent
I'd encourage you to start referring to it that way,then.
stale2002 | root | parent
Are you trying to imply, without making any direct argument, that this is never a useful frame of reference?

In comparison to cloud services, having access to the assembly code can still be quite useful.

This is especially true in the modern era, where you can use AI to much more easily decompile the assemble and reconstruct the source code even.

"Open-assembly" code may be more useful than you might previously have thought, given the ease of recreating the source code or making changes with AI these days.