We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

Re:We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 by terabyterex on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:59PM (#50292274)

Unless, i am missing something they haven't claimed open source anywhere. none of them have claimed open source. open weights has never meant the same thing as open source.

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Re:We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 by Vinnl on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:50PM (#50294033)

Open weights was already a weaker term then open source, but this is not even that. "Weights available" feels like an apt description akin to source available.

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Re:We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 by usef- on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:55PM (#50294869)

Yes. I do see people describe Kimi models as as open weights all the time, and they have somewhat similar licensing restrictions to this

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Re:We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 by leni536 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:32PM (#50294560)

Shareware/freeware?

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Re:We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 by Vinnl on Thursday October 29, 2026 @07:21PM (#50297667)

Open source: source code available, and can be used for whatever.

Source-available: source code available, but only for viewing, not to make derivatives.

Freeware/shareware: source code not available, but software is free to run.

Not sure what the weights equivalent of that last one is, but I feel like this is more like source-available.

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Re:We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 by thayne on Thursday October 29, 2026 @09:06PM (#50298624)

It isn't a perfect analogy, but I think the weights of a model are closer to a compiled executable than source code.

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Re:We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 by Vinnl on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:33AM (#50303652)

Ah yeah I suppose that's fair.

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