alt Hacker News> Gemma is open source and apache 2.0 licensed
Closed source but open weight. Let’s not ruin the definition of the term in advantage of big companies.
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Imustaskforhelp • last Thursday at 7:05 PM
Yes!! But I doubt how many are truly truly open source models since most just confuse open source with open weights and the definition has been changed really smh.
Your reply adds more confusion, imo.
The inference code and model architecture IS open source[0] and there are many other high quality open source implementations of the model (in many cases contributed by Google engineers[1]). To your point: they do not publish the data used to train the model so you can't re-create it from scratch.
[0] https://github.com/google-deepmind/gemma [1] https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/2964