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Many of the "free as in freedom" models are not trained or licensed for commercial use. For example, selling access to a LLaMA API would be a direct violation o
by smoldesu 3y ago
Many of the "free as in freedom" models are not trained or licensed for commercial use. For example, selling access to a LLaMA API would be a direct violation of the license the model was provided with.
- version_five 3y agoI don't think you mean free as in freedom. Maybe freemium, I can't think of a closer short description. They don't cost anything but you're not allowed to use them for most stuff either. Otoh, there are plenty of Apache and MIT licensed models. For example Open LLaMA and Falcon, Dolly, etc. HF lets you filter by license.
- smoldesu 3y agoYou're right. In fairness, the actual code for training LLaMA is "FOSS" technically. It's just that the model license (and weights afaik) are noncommercially licensed. I guess it would be cool to see a paid Falcon/Dolly API, but in my experience those models get smoked by a good LLaMA 7b tuning. You would really have to hate OpenAI to seek out a non-GPT3 solution here...