--- title: Measuring the Trustworthiness of Open-Source-Derived Models link: https://cognition.com/blog/measuring-open-source-model-trustworthiness source: cognition published: 2026-07-08T00:00:00Z first_seen: 2026-09-02T14:07:29.769486161Z summary: We built an evaluation suite to assess model trustworthiness. Our results indicate that models developed from open-source models can be trusted, provided that sufficient thought and care is put into their development. --- We built an evaluation suite to assess model trustworthiness. Our results indicate that models developed from open-source models can be trusted, provided that sufficient thought and care is put into their development.