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"Fully Open" > The Instella-3B models are licensed for academic and research purposes under a ReasearchRAIL license. Huge mistake. This would have been an am

"Fully Open" > The Instella-3B models are licensed for academic and research purposes under a ReasearchRAIL license. Huge mistake. This would have been an amazing PR win for AMD if they just gave it away. Open models attract ecosystems. It'd be a fantastic sales channel for their desktop GPU hardware if they can also build increasing support for ML with their cards and drivers.

woadwarrior01 2y ago
I suspect the release was for marketing reasons and not for winning developer goodwill.
- ziddoap 2y ago
  Developer goodwill can be very powerful marketing.
- throwaw12 2y ago
  look what happened to NVIDIA because they were able to win goodwill of developers. Lots of companies use PyTorch with NVIDIA
- azinman2 2y ago
  Not to mention it’s a 3B model.
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z3c0 2y ago
The license, for anybody else wondering what on earth a "ResearchRAIL" is: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AMD-AIG-AIMA/Instella/refs/heads/main/LICENSE https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AMD-AIG-AIMA/Instella/refs... It comes off a bit... dubious. The prohibited uses boil down to "don't use Instella to be a jerk or make porn" which I expect many people will do anyways and simply not disclose their use of Instella (which, of course, is prohibited). This is the first RAIL license I've read, but if this is the standard, this reads less like a license and more like an unenforceable list of requests. Edit: if I were to make an analogy, this license is a bit like if curl came with a clause that said "no web scraping or porn".