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“Don’t use ‘open weight’ and ‘open source’ interchangeably”: Percona CEO on why AI terminology matters

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Percona CEO Peter Farkas urges the AI industry to distinguish between 'open weight' models and true 'open source' AI, emphasizing that open weights lack the freedoms and transparency of open source. This distinction matters as open-weight models dominate AI production, but without source code or training data, they don't meet open source criteria.

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