Re:The current AI pricing was always going to go away
by NitpickLawyer on Friday May 22, 2026 @03:47PM
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> It is pretty much exactly akin to a Linux driver that depends on linux-firmware.
The key distinction between the two is "is that the preferred form of modifying that linux driver"? And then "does the license allow you to inspect, modify and re-release that linux driver"? If the answer to any of those questions is "no", then it's not "exactly the same".
> You seem to contradict yourself here.
I don't think so. There are open source models (released under Apache2.0, MIT, like qwens, some mistrals, deepseek, etc.), open-weights models (released under restrictive licenses i.e. llamas, some mistrals, some from cohere, etc) and there are open data models (Apertus, Olmo, etc). The license dictates if a model is open source or open weight. The difference is what you are allowed to do with th emodel.
The key distinction between the two is "is that the preferred form of modifying that linux driver"? And then "does the license allow you to inspect, modify and re-release that linux driver"? If the answer to any of those questions is "no", then it's not "exactly the same".
> You seem to contradict yourself here.
I don't think so. There are open source models (released under Apache2.0, MIT, like qwens, some mistrals, deepseek, etc.), open-weights models (released under restrictive licenses i.e. llamas, some mistrals, some from cohere, etc) and there are open data models (Apertus, Olmo, etc). The license dictates if a model is open source or open weight. The difference is what you are allowed to do with th emodel.