Prompt Pad: What Are Open-Weight Models?

When people call an AI model "open," they don't always mean the same thing. On this week's Prompt...

When people call an AI model "open," they don't always mean the same thing.

On this week's Prompt Pad, @rosendo_pili breaks down open-weight models using Google's Gemma as an example.

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The difference

An open-weight model gives you the trained model itself. You can download it, run it on your own machine, and fine-tune it for your project.

Open-source asks for more. It means the full recipe is available to study, change, and share: the code, and for AI, details like the training data and process.

Your Turn

What would you build with a model that never has to leave your laptop? 👇

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