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"Open Source" is a misnomer for LLMs. The weights are comparable to binary blobs.
The difference is nobody knows what the binary blobs are made of
You could recreate them if you had the training data, which is pretty much never disclosed.
You could of course use one of the models that are trained on open data sets. Maybe a little worse than those directly from Mistral etc but truly open source
I decided I don't care for imaginary AI copyright and will use Llama as if it is public domain.