I have mixed feelings, llama is great but it's perpetuated it's shitty license. They could have done so much more good if they'd used gpl style licensing, instead they basically subverted open source, using an objectively good model as leverage.
The license for Llama 2 is pretty intense, but mirrors that intent by limiting interactions with individuals at scale, as well as limiting anything learned from the model through inference in being used to train another model. I suspect this is because the dataset on which it was trained is the company's IP, which again is for the shareholder's benefit.
The code is open though, I think out of necessity. AI poses a significant challenge for our survival, and making it open is an indication of transparency. They still need to make money at what they do and charge people for using their IP, within reason.
I guess my question would be that, if I used Llama (not the code, but the model itself) to code up a new model, would that be a derivative work?
Aka, my own comments being sublicensed back to me, after I licenced them to Facebook.
Absolutely not. There's a corner of the overall community that hovers it and overperceives it as everyone else only uses it too.
Its great if you have an Apple ARM machine and want to see an M2 Pro do 10 tokens/sec (and what could make an Apple ARM have 30 minute battery life).
I also doubt it's a slight, the only callouts are large commercial collaborations, ex. nVidia, AMD, Google are representative of each of the 3 groups we could assign it
Let’s say I want to find the latest or most recent projects on this, is it possible to find them on GitHub based on that criteria?
Llama is not Open Source but until we get a court case ruling one way or the other we don't know if it's actually locked-down in the way Facebook intends; and I want to strike a balance between (correctly) pointing out that Facebook is misusing the Open Source label while not ceding to Facebook's claims about how much it can legally constrain people who have never signed a single Llama TOS.
ok seriously though I had fun over the weekend chatting with Samantha on a long car ride on my MacBook. We were mostly asking about history.
It’d just be better if it was around RWKV or something that doesn’t prevent you from improving any models outside of the llama ecosystem.
It’s a great embrace, extend, extinguish play by meta.
> It’s a great embrace, extend, extinguish play by meta.
Meta released Pytorch, Pytext and even built ONNX with Microsoft to avoid an EEE situation. What more could you possibly want?
