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		aquir 43 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Grok 2.5 is now open source. Grok 3 will be open s... Smoke and mirrors...hostile license, old model and it's open weight and not open source. Probably the only reason to do this to Elon to be able to say to the other frontier labs: see, we are open!

npn 43 days ago [–]

Open source those models would enable major lawsuits for copyright violation. And I doubt that they own the rights to the training sets either way.

Open weight models are still useful to extract knowledge from. With much lower cost compared to hitting the API

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