Kimi k2 largest open source SOTA model?

Re:Kimi k2 largest open source SOTA model? by CaptainFever on Saturday July 12, 2025 @02:59PM (#44544203)

It's not even open-weight. It's weight-available. It uses a "modified MIT license":

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Re:Kimi k2 largest open source SOTA model? by mitthrowaway2 on Saturday July 12, 2025 @03:47PM (#44544587)

This seems significantly more permissive than GPL. I think it's reasonable to consider it open-weight.

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Re:Kimi k2 largest open source SOTA model? by MallocVoidstar on Saturday July 12, 2025 @03:48PM (#44544597)

4-clause BSD is considered open source by Debian and the FSF and has a similar requirement.

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Re:Kimi k2 largest open source SOTA model? by weitendorf on Saturday July 12, 2025 @10:36PM (#44547029)

So "MIT with attribution" (but only for huge commercial use cases making tons of money off the product) is not open-weight? Do you consider CC BY photos on Wikipedia to be Image Available or GPL licensed software to be code-available too?

Tangent: I don't understand the contingent that gets upset about open LLMs not shipping with their full training regimes or source data. The software a company spent hundreds of millions of dollars creating, which you are now free to use and distribute with essentially no restrictions, is open source. It has weights in it, and a bunch of related software for actually running a model with those weights. How dare they!

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