The AI industry has enthusiastically embraced the language of open source , even as some of its most prominent “open” models offer developers only a fraction of what that term has traditionally promised. Speaking at Open Source Summit Europe in Prague on Wednesday, Peter Farkas , co-creator of the open source MongoDB alternative FerretDB and now CEO of open source database services company Percona , has a simple request: “Don’t use ‘open weight’ and ‘open source’ interchangeably,” he says. “’Open source’ is only going to remain ‘open source’ as long as we preserve the actual meaning and the...

Source: The New Stack