ML//model//open source model

An open source model is a machine learning model whose weights are released publicly, so that anyone with a GPU cluster can run it, and it is the product of a movement to release weights in the open. LLaMA broke the dam, followed by Mistral, Mixtral, Falcon, Phi, Qwen and DeepSeek.

An open source model is a machine learning model whose weights are released publicly, so that anyone with a GPU cluster can run it, and it is the product of a movement to release weights in the open. LLaMA broke the dam, followed by Mistral, Mixtral, Falcon, Phi, Qwen and DeepSeek.

The movement shifted power from a few labs (OpenAI, Google) to anyone with a GPU cluster, and the debate between open and closed mirrors every previous software cycle.