Many of the recent innovations in both LLM architecture and inference were only made possible through open models such as Llama 2 and Mistral 7B as a starting p

Many of the recent innovations in both LLM architecture and inference were only made possible through open models such as Llama 2 and Mistral 7B as a starting point for iteration and refinement, which in turn backpropagates (heh) back to the LLMs developers. It's a win-win for everyone. That's the power of open source.