DeepSeek proves the future of LLMs is open-source

Re:DeepSeek proves the future of LLMs is open-source by dartos on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @11:41AM (#42867338)

> With an LLM, the actual 0s and 1s of the model are fairly standard, common, and freely available to anyone that wants to use them

How is that different than the 0s and 1s of a program?

Assembly instructions are literally standard. What’s more, if said program uses something like Java, the byte code is even _more_ understandable. So much so that there is an ecosystem of Java decompilers.

Binary files are not the “source” in question when talking about “open source”

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Re:DeepSeek proves the future of LLMs is open-source by fuzzbazz on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @12:34PM (#42868218)

There is no way to decompile an LLM's weights and obtain a somewhat meaningful, reproducible source, like with a program binary as you say. In fact, if we were to compare both in this way that would make a program binary more "open source".

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Re:DeepSeek proves the future of LLMs is open-source by dartos on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @02:30PM (#42869931)

Yes, that is my exact argument.

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