alt Hacker NewsThe Chinese models are usually not only open weight AND open-source but they also often publish their methodology in detailed scholarly publications that are themselves open-access. DeepSeek most famously
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cactusplant7374 • yesterday at 5:02 PM
Is the training data open source? Can I download that?
Training data, training methodology. All NOT OPEN.
Until we know what a model is trained on, and how it is trained in high detail, I hesitate to call them "Open Source" in any way. They are free. But, we don't know what their priorities are etc. Witness the censorship we see in all models in one form or another. I'm not absolving any side of this.
Just saying: Don't be blind.