Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

open weights

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English

Syllables: open weights
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

1

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Publicly released model parameters of a trained neural network, allowing others to run or further adapt the model.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The vast majority of LLMs that claim to be fully open source are actually just open weights and sometimes not even that."
"OpenAI just dropped two new open-weights models. Here's why that isn't the same as being fully open. […] Basically, open-weights is a category of AI models that power products like chatbots, image and video generators.[…] Open-weights models give us a peek at the mechanical wizard behind the curtain, so to speak."

Etymology

After open source.

Usage

Uncountable

Antonyms

closed weights

Questions

What does open weights mean?: Publicly released model parameters of a trained neural network, allowing others to run or further adapt the model.
Where does open weights come from?: After open source.

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