Yacine: calling models 'open weights' is like calling a closed binary 'open binary'
yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-27
Yacine (yacineMTB, 412K followers, ex-OpenAI) mocks the open-source terminology: calling a model "open weights" is like releasing a closed binary and calling it "open binary" — a jab at how the term obscures the absence of truly open training data and code.
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