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Open Source

Glossary of AI concepts, explained simply

2 concepts

Open Source

2 concepts

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Beginner

Open Source

Open-source AI

Open-source AI is AI that anyone may download, use, study, change and share, so a business can run a model on its own computers instead of renting one.

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Intermediate

Open Source

Difference between open weights and open-source AI

With open weights you can download and run a trained AI model; open-source AI also shares the code and training data details, so others can check and rebuild it.