Their models are open weights, and they are supported in ollama. You can run locally if you have sufficient hardware.
https://hongkongfp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/brave_udRs...
In fact these models are less lobotomized than western open source models.
(My recollection is that the training code is MIT licensed.)
So "open weights" is accurate. We used to call this closed source...