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by throwaw12 20 days ago
Open source for the win!

Imagine how far community might have pushed if 2 past versions of 'morally superior' Anthropic and 'completely Open AI' open sourced their models for the community to build on top of them

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Is this open source? I can't find a link to download the weights.
It's based on an open weight model (Kimi 2.7) so shouldn't it also be open weight?
> so shouldn't it also be open weight?

Should as in "would it be nice?" - yeah. Should as in they have to? No.

> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so

You can do pretty much anything you want with an MIT license.

There is no obligation to do that. I think the landscape would be very different now if one of the big labs had released an earlier “frontier” model under copyleft that requires sharing fine tunes. I hope it still happens.
Dario is convinced that will create SkyNet, and so no, it will never happen. Only the blessed members of the True Church Of Effective Altruism can approach the Ark of the Covenant. The unwashed cannot be trusted.
Rationalism and EA is Scientology for the Bay Area.
It's just the 2020s version of Ayn Rand's "Objectivism." Distillation of exploitative personality traits covered over in sophistry and philosophical excuses. Lets people be dickheads and be smugly superior about it at the same time.
Not open source. Also, not available beyond it's own harness.