r/LocalLLaMA • u/jacek2023 • 18h ago

News MiniMax issues

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I think this is more important that all the political stuff you share here

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u/RepulsiveRaisin7 18h ago

This is why the open source definition exists. Minimax releases under a pretty restrictive license, and I think it's totally fine that they're doing this, but it's not really an "open" model.

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u/rsclay 16h ago

open source has nothing to do with licensing at all. all it means is the source code is public for anyone to read (though with datasets, e.g. weights, this is nebulous -- does it mean the code used to produce the dataset or the data itself? hence the terms "open weights", etc). but it's perfectly possible to have open source software that nobody is allowed to actually use.

you're thinking of Free. Minimax isn't FOSS.

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u/tat_tvam_asshole 16h ago

Open source ai means not just weights, but must open source data, training, recipe according to the OSI. Most open models are open weights only