Software published under a licence that lets anyone inspect, modify and redistribute it. In AI the label is contested, since some "open" models release weights without the training data or the licence freedoms.
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Open source
Software published under a licence that lets anyone inspect, modify and redistribute it. In AI the label is contested, since some "open" models release weights without the training data or the licence freedoms.
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