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This seems stupid, because other smaller companies are releasing LLaMA-likes out into the open. But I get why Facebook kept LLaMA legally restricted while thro
by brucethemoose2 3y ago
This seems stupid, because other smaller companies are releasing LLaMA-likes out into the open.
But I get why Facebook kept LLaMA legally restricted while throwing it out without much enforcement: to appease inquiries like this.
- londons_explore 3y agoI don't think Facebooks moves were heavily strategically thought out. Instead, I think a small team of a few researchers made LLaMA and published a paper about it[1], and then realised to get any citations for their paper they'd need to let other researchers have the weights. Citations are like money in the academic world. Every researcher wants citations. Executives and managers care less about that stuff. [1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.13971 https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.13971
- cma 3y agoYann LeCun in a podcast said it was because of uncertain copyright status on models but an expected fair use defense if distributed for research only.