Shakeel Hashim says Meta PR still blurs open source and open weights
ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-07-29
Shakeel Hashim says he once confronted a Meta PR person who kept refusing to acknowledge that Meta’s models were not open source.
He argues the person genuinely did not understand the difference between open source and open weight, and found the experience infuriating. The post is a small but pointed industry anecdote about how Meta’s messaging around model openness is perceived by outsiders.
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