Open weights

A model released so that anyone can download its trained parameters, the numbers that come out of training, and run it themselves. In practice that means you can host it on your own infrastructure, keep patient data inside your own network, fine tune it on local data, and test it against your own population without sending anything to a vendor API. That control is usually the real reason a health system wants open weights. What you do not get is the recipe: the training data, the training code and the decisions that shaped the model stay with the developer, so you can measure how the model behaves but not inspect why it behaves that way. Open weights also says nothing about the licence. Most releases, Llama and Gemma included, come with vendor terms and use restrictions, and some are research use only, which is a procurement question before it is a technical one. Open weights is not open source.

Terms like this come up in real clinical scenarios across the HelloAI courses: bite-sized modules with verifiable certificates. An account takes one minute, no password needed.