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This has nothing to do with superintelligence, it's just the people that were working on the paper prior to the re-org happened to publish after the name change.

Though it is notable that contrary to many (on HN and Twitter) that Meta would stop publishing papers and be like other AI labs (e.g. OpenAI). They're continued their rapid pace of releasing papers AND open source models.





What model(s) have Meta released since the Lab re-org?

Also, that wasn't based on purely hearsay, Zuck explicitly said:

> We believe the benefits of superintelligence should be shared with the world as broadly as possible. That said, superintelligence will raise novel safety concerns. We'll need to be rigorous about mitigating these risks and careful about what we choose to open source. Still, we believe that building a free society requires that we aim to empower people as much as possible. [0]

[0]: https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/


Open weights models, not open source. And even their weights are under a specific license not as permissive as apache 2.

This is the right terminology. Model weights are literally compiled binary data; they are the output of an algorithm run on a bunch of source data. That training dataset is the "source" of the model. Training data (or the scripts used to generate it) is human-readable and modifiable, like source code. Binary weights are not.

Just to note though, source copyright extends to its compiled form. There is probably an analogue there for model weights.

I propose that from now on we call freewares "open binaries".

Does an “open source” model the way you describe it exist or is it a mythical creature?

Unicorns also don't exist, but we don't change the definition to include horses.

Prove to me that unicorns don't exist, first level arguments only!

The first level argument is that old horse, burden of proof.

An open source model does exist now [1] and is multilingual. Previous discussion [2].

[1] https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-l...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44535637


There aren’t many but they do exist. OLMo for example.

Olmo by AllenAI and Pythia by EleutherAI.

Should be the top comment.

MSL is not only those few high profile hires.




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