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Qwen2.5-Max, a second Chinese open-source AI that equals western investor-funded AIs, has been released. (qwenlm.github.io)

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[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Isn't every software binary open source then? Since you can open it in a hex editor and modify it

[–] Cochise@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 day ago

But tou don't have permission to do. And hacking a binary is much more difficult than specializing a model, for instance.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah, that's kind of AI companies' definition of open source... Other companies just have "open" in their name for historical reasons. The FSF doesn't really agree ( https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-is-working-on-freedom-in-machine-learning-applications ) and neither do I. It's "open weight". Or I'd need to see the datasets and training scripts as well.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, "open weight" seems a more appropriate label. It still seems better than a fully proprietary system, but calling it open source without clarification is misleading.