See open model.
Open model A model whose weights are published for anyone to download and run, also called an open-weight model. A closed model’s weights stay with its maker. Chapter 1.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
Sources that use it
- Kelly Hong and Greg Burnham, “Can AI automate Epoch?,” Epoch AI, 8 October 2026 (six models given “real work tasks from Epoch,” “11 tasks across five diverse categories” as of launch, graded “against our own employee standards”; “Open-weight models lag further behind.”; “This capability gap is larger than existing benchmark scores suggest.”; its own limits, “we run each model only once per task” and “Scores are therefore noisy and may shift with more runs”; read in the page as served 24 October 2026). In the Sources
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Open-weight model.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/open-weight-model (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-open-weight-model-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Open-weight model}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/open-weight-model},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}