Approachable
Approachable
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Open-Weights Model

A model whose trained weights you can download and run yourself. Llama, Mistral, Qwen, DeepSeek.

Also called: open source LLM, local model

A model whose trained weights you can download and run yourself. Llama, Mistral, Qwen, DeepSeek.

Why it mattersYou control the data, the cost and the uptime. You also own the ops.

See also Quantization, Distillation

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