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> (1) They can give away the model but sell an API - but they can’t serve a model as cheap as Goog/Msft/Amzn who have better unit economics on their cloud and b
by treesciencebot 3y ago
> (1) They can give away the model but sell an API - but they can’t serve a model as cheap as Goog/Msft/Amzn who have better unit economics on their cloud and better pricing on GPUs (plus custom inference chips).
Which has a simple solution, release the model weights with a license which doesn't let anyone to commercially host them (like AGPL-ish) without your permission. That is what Stability.ai does it.
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- vineyardmike 3y agoBut who cares? Like not morally-open-access-sounds-nice but actual impact. Open-access to these models is nice but only commercial enterprises can afford the compute requirements for a massive LLM. So an AGPL type model would just sit on the hard drives of like 30 people who have a hobby to heat their home with GPUs.
- treesciencebot 3y agoIt allows for research to continue, which might eventually benefit everyone. The primary advantage in my mind is giving academy a chance to learn from it and community to build cool stuff on top of it.
- throwaway11460 3y agoIt's still not clear if model weights are under copyright protection at all.