Percy Liang: Open Weights Alone Don't Make Open AI

Percy Liang argues that open weights are only the first layer of openness; full open-source AI includes papers, code, and data recipes, without which Stanford's CS336 course couldn't exist.

2026-09-09 ~ 2026-09-09 · 2 related posts

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