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this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2026
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On principle I only want a pure FOSS program. I wouldn't want to use a binary-only browser even if it was a great browser with good privacy. I do use the built in Firefox translate feature but I've been wanting to get around to seeing where its model comes from. The Mistral stuff is completely proprietary except for the final weights as far as I can tell. I'd rather resist that since I want to be able to build and modify it myself.
Same as most open weight models. There are very few truly open source models, particularly if your definition requires distributing the whole training dataset.
I hope you've got some damn beefy hardware then. Even small models are a pain to train from scratch. You CAN still fine-tune it or train with LoRA.
Yes exactly. Open weight is like a compiled binary. Misleading terminology made that sound desirable.
It's ok I can manage without AI.