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U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (genesisopenmodels.anl.gov)
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[โ€“] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I agree that "open source" is often incorrectly used to refer to open-weight models, things that are more analogous to closed-source software where you get the binaries.

That being said, the article does correctly use "open weights". The submitted title here lacks it, but the current title of the article does appear to have it, so either the article author updated the title or the submitter truncated it.

[โ€“] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

I was more saying if gov money is used it should be open source.