Yacine: Open-source LLMs must share training data, weights alone aren't enough

yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-27

Yacine (Pearl CEO) argues an LLM is effectively a closed binary whose "compilation" takes boiling a few oceans — but its actual source code, the training data, can still be open. In his view, truly open-source LLMs must share their training data for anyone to trust the model's behavior; open weights alone don't cut it.

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