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UncleOxidanttoday at 4:58 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's based on an open weight model (Kimi 2.7) so shouldn't it also be open weight?


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NitpickLawyertoday at 5:37 PM

> so shouldn't it also be open weight?

Should as in "would it be nice?" - yeah. Should as in they have to? No.

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You can do pretty much anything you want with an MIT license.

andy99today at 5:07 PM

There is no obligation to do that. I think the landscape would be very different now if one of the big labs had released an earlier “frontier” model under copyleft that requires sharing fine tunes. I hope it still happens.

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