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AI Models From Google, Meta, Others May Not Be Truly 'Open Source'
Per a new definition for open models, Meta's Llama 3 and Google's Gemma don't qualify, though not everyone agrees. Here's why that could put the products that use them on shaky ground.
Mozilla endorses the revised definition as "critical not just for redefining what 'open source' means in the context of AI [but for] shaping the future of the technology and its impact on society." "The lack of a precise definition in the past has made it easier for some companies to act like their AI was open source even when it wasn’t," Marda tells PCMag. He defines open-source models as those "whose weights are released publicly with a permissive license,” and cites Llama as an example in an opinion piece published in The Economist last month.
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