What "Open Weights" Means

I was browsing the headlines of Hacker News and came across one called China's open-weights AI strategy is winning . I had been curious what the term "open weights" means, so I spent an hour or so learning a few things, and I will share what I learned with you right now. Let's begin with the word weight . In neural networks, a weight is a single number that controls how strongly one part of the…