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Open weights enable companies to continually improve owned models
Open weights enable companies to continually improve owned models
Karanam recommends becoming comfortable operating open-weight models because owning model weights makes continued model improvement possible, while acknowledging operational concerns such as security and safety.
- Speaker
- Arjun Karanam
- Topic
- Open-Weight Models
- Source timestamp
- 5:28
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