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Given that LLMs might be a generation-defining technology it's certainly weird that one of the biggest public companies is giving theirs away for free.
by chpatrick 3y ago
Given that LLMs might be a generation-defining technology it's certainly weird that one of the biggest public companies is giving theirs away for free.
- dragonwriter 3y agoWeb browsers were also a generation-defining technology.
- thentherewere2 3y agoThey're actually not giving it away for free. At least not LLAMA v2. Once a product successfully monetizes and gains over a certain number of users, an official license from Meta has to be negotiated otherwise Meta could revoke usage of the model. At least that's roughly what the license for LLAMAv2 implies.
- ahahahahah 3y agoThat's not quite right. The license never gets revoked. Once over a certain size, the company will not receive licenses to new versions/releases.
- 037 3y agoThis is how I understand it too, and it's very interesting. In any case, if your company reaches that size, I'm sure you'll have replaced it with something else by that time. I'm confident many fully open-source, high-quality and specialized models will be available in the next years - even thanks to Meta. Whatever their strategy is, the models are on our machines, legally, and this is incredible.
- chpatrick 3y agoBut that clause pretty much only applies to mega companies like FB no?
- thentherewere2 3y agoYeah IIRC its something like 700m users. ie. meta gets to piggy back off any generational winners
- ethbr1 3y agoDoes FB care about any companies smaller than that? If they're Instagram-competitive-successful, FB can afford to buy them.
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- whimsicalism 3y agoThe open research tradition has been open for many defining technology, most companies continued releasing for free even when it became clear this tech would be transformative (I think it was obvious by GPT-2).