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by dartos 929 days ago
Which open source models are u referring to? Most are based on llama, which isn’t open source, and some on mistral, which is more open, but we don’t have access to the data, so we can’t make it ourselves (in the spirit of open source)
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When people say open source model they are really trying to say available weights model.
I hear you but I think even partially “open source” models are better than all the closed systems that can only be accessed via APIs.

I would like to acknowledge companies that offer even partially open source models in hopes of convincing others to do the same.

At the very least for the engine there is now llama.cpp which is an open source port. Admittedly the real magic is in the weights however.