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Just an FYI,the Yi license is a custom license an is not what I would describe an "open license": https://huggingface.co/01-ai/Yi-34B/blob/main/LICENSE https://

by lhl 3y ago

Just an FYI,the Yi license is a custom license an is not what I would describe an "open license": https://huggingface.co/01-ai/Yi-34B/blob/main/LICENSE https://huggingface.co/01-ai/Yi-34B/blob/main/LICENSE It's non-commercial only: "If you plan to use the Yi Series Models and Derivatives for Commercial Purposes, you should contact the Licensor in advance" and "Your use of the Yi Series Models must comply with the Laws and Regulations as well as applicable legal requirements of other countries/regions, and respect social ethics and moral standards," which is all fine and good, but as defined in the terms, “Laws and Regulations” refers to the laws and administrative regulations of the mainland of the People's Republic of China. I tend to refer to this type of license as NC/China and I don't even bother poking around with those. I'll wait for the next Mistral or other Apache 2.0 model to come out. Note, for coding, DeepSeek Coder 33B is already stronger and released under a less restrictive license.

ttflee 3y ago
The model card for Yi-34B included benchmark scores in several Chinese-oriented evaluation sets, CMMLU, C-eval and GAOKAO.
omneity 3y ago
Worth noting they include synthetic data and training other models as derivatives: > “Derivatives” refers to all modifications to Yi Series Models, work based on Yi Series Models, or any other models created or initialized by transferring the weights, parameters, activations, or output patterns of Yi Series Models to other models to achieve similar performance, including but not limited to methods that require using intermediate data representations or generating synthetic data based on Yi Series Models to train other models. This model does not seem fit at all for public use except maybe for some research. I suspect they have customers lined up or are currently prospecting/in talks, and this release is purely for marketing purposes.
- ronsor 3y ago
  I'm not sure how enforceable that would even be. Since the output of these models can't be copyrighted, you can't apply a license to them either. The question of whether the weights can be copyrighted is separate, but I also honestly don't think so. I think all these model weight licenses are an emperor's new clothes scenario, where everyone is too afraid to call out the obvious.
RobotToaster 3y ago
Yeah, getting tired of licences like this and stability AI claiming to be open source when they clearly aren't.

by lhl 3y ago

ttflee 3y ago

The model card for Yi-34B included benchmark scores in several Chinese-oriented evaluation sets, CMMLU, C-eval and GAOKAO.

omneity 3y ago

Worth noting they include synthetic data and training other models as derivatives: > “Derivatives” refers to all modifications to Yi Series Models, work based on Yi Series Models, or any other models created or initialized by transferring the weights, parameters, activations, or output patterns of Yi Series Models to other models to achieve similar performance, including but not limited to methods that require using intermediate data representations or generating synthetic data based on Yi Series Models to train other models. This model does not seem fit at all for public use except maybe for some research. I suspect they have customers lined up or are currently prospecting/in talks, and this release is purely for marketing purposes.

ronsor 3y ago
I'm not sure how enforceable that would even be. Since the output of these models can't be copyrighted, you can't apply a license to them either. The question of whether the weights can be copyrighted is separate, but I also honestly don't think so. I think all these model weight licenses are an emperor's new clothes scenario, where everyone is too afraid to call out the obvious.

RobotToaster 3y ago

Yeah, getting tired of licences like this and stability AI claiming to be open source when they clearly aren't.