Organizations that run open-weight AI models on their own infrastructure may have to supply safety and security controls that an AI provider would otherwise handle for them, Microsoft and NVIDIA warn in a joint paper on managing the risks of these models. Open-weight models are AI models whose weights, the values a model learns during training, are published so that anyone can download, inspect, modify and run them. Closed-weight models stay with the company that … More →
With open-weight AI, more of the security burden falls on enterprises
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