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It is not FOSS. The LLM industry has repurposed "open source" to mean "you can run the model yourself." They've released the model, but it does not meet the '
by stonogo 2y ago
It is not FOSS. The LLM industry has repurposed "open source" to mean "you can run the model yourself." They've released the model, but it does not meet the 'four freedoms' standard: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3/blob/main/LICENSE-MODEL https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3/blob/main/LICENSE...
- coldtea 2y agoThe code is MIT however.
- throwaway314155 2y agoIn fairness, you can still reverse engineer the training procedure yourself from their paper and get a close approximation of training cost using some open/synthetic datasets. You might think it's incredibly complicated to do this without source code, but the pre-training portion of the training is something you can grab from other projects or re-derive yourself pretty easily (and will account for the bulk of training time/cost). Not defending it, but it's a much better situation than some of the non-commercial licensing from e.g. Meta, Stability.