Anaconda co-founder Peter Wang argues open-source AI requires model interpretability, drawing pushback from Stella Biderman

One of the foundational principles for the original open source movement was the right to inspect what’s actually running on your computer. The 1970s way to manifest this was the require the availability of the source code (precursor for executable binaries).

For an LLM, that transparency and legibility has to manifest as interpretability. Indeed, no model is there yet, but that’s what the original spirit of “open source” would require.