I think the spirit of the Stable Diffusion moment comment is that there is a ton of work blossoming around LLMs, largely because there's a good base model that

I think the spirit of the Stable Diffusion moment comment is that there is a ton of work blossoming around LLMs, largely because there's a good base model that is now available. And that's undeniable, IMO -- llama.cpp, vicuna are some really prominent examples. People are running language models on Raspberry Pis and smartphones. Anyone who wants to tinker can. Now, all the stuff that's built on top of LLaMa is currently encumbered, yes. But all of that work can likely be transferred to an unencumbered base model pretty easily. The existence of the ecosystem around LLaMa makes it much more likely that someone will create an unencumbered base model. And it seems like that is already happening, for example, the Red Pajama folks are working on this.