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What is an Open Weight?
Open weights refers to a situation where the internal mathematical parameters of an AI model are made available for anyone to download and use. These parameters act like the brain of the model, containing the patterns it learned during training. When a company releases these weights, they allow developers to run the AI on their own private computers or servers. This is different from closed models, where the company keeps the brain hidden and only allows users to access the AI through a website or an internet connection.
Why this matters to you
It gives your organization full control over the AI. You do not have to rely on a third-party company to keep the service running. It also improves data privacy because you can process sensitive information on your own secure systems instead of sending it to an external cloud provider.
How you might hear this
We decided to build our internal customer support tool using a model with open weights so we could host it on our own private cloud servers for better security.
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