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Re:Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI by typ on Monday June 22, 2026 @03:49AM (#48627064)
> an open training source model

It's always funny to see people tempted to call open-blobs/open-weights, which are literally shareware like WinRAR or Adobe PDF Viewer, open source, and then need to invent a new term for what is actually open source.

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Re:Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI by maxloh on Monday June 22, 2026 @09:28AM (#48629843)
Nemotron is vastly different from standard open-weight models. Its entire training pipeline is open-sourced, while other vendors typically only release the model weights.
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Re:Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI by wrs on Monday June 22, 2026 @12:27PM (#48632356)
Right, thus it is actually “open source”, and they shouldn’t need to invent a new term “open training source”. But the others have already effectively trashed the meaning of “open source”.
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