> With an LLM, the actual 0s and 1s of the model are fairly standard, common, and freely available to anyone that wants to use them

How is that different than the 0s and 1s of a program?

Assembly instructions are literally standard. What’s more, if said program uses something like Java, the byte code is even _more_ understandable. So much so that there is an ecosystem of Java decompilers.

Binary files are not the “source” in question when talking about “open source”