[waterTanuki]

When talking about "open source" models no one is talking about the legal framework and textual doctrine of open source. They simply want to know: "can I run this on hardware I own or no?" That's it. It's simply about control. If you don't think there's a difference between models you can download and run on hardware you own, regardless of how big it is, vs. models you can only talk to through an API, you are seeing the forest for the trees.

You are also indirectly helping the closed SOTA model toll-keepers by taking the focus away from their mass copyright theft and onto some pointless textbook definition.