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Percona CEO: Stop conflating open weight and open source AI
Original: “Don’t use ‘open weight’ and ‘open source’ interchangeably”: Percona CEO on why AI terminology matters
Percona's chief executive is pushing back on the growing habit of describing AI models as "open source" when they are only released with open weights. He argues the two terms are not interchangeable, since open weight models often lack the training data, code and freedoms that true open source guarantees, and says precise terminology matters for developers and buyers.
Why now: Debates over what genuinely counts as open source in AI are intensifying as more model makers market open weight releases under that label.
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- “Don’t use ‘open weight’ and ‘open source’ interchangeably”: Percona CEO on why AI terminology matters · The New Stack
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