Kagi’s LLM can already do that. I believe so can Perplexity’s. Citing sources isn’t something only open models can do.
Sure. The point is the thing you said only an open-source model can do, it can do. Plenty of proprietary LLMs can cite sources.
The plain truth is most of the benefits of open models are not on the consumer side. (Or at least, I haven't seen any articulated.) They're on the producers'. Open models are better for those of us training models. That's partly why the open data debate is academic--very few people are training large foundation models because the compute and electricity costs are prohibitive.
Genuinely blown away the EU isn't doing this.
In the U.S., the solution may be in carving a legal safe harbor for companies that release their models per the OSI's draft definition of open source.