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Nvidia releases NVLM 1.0 72B open weight model

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Re: Nvidia releases NVLM 1.0 72B open weight model

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That's not true, there are plenty of companies that make a profit, Midjourney, for example, an obvious one.

Are there others?

I use NovelAI and that's also profitable. I would be surprised if Elevenlabs wasn't profitable right now.

Re: Nvidia releases NVLM 1.0 72B open weight model

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It has a non-commercial cc-by-nc-4.0 license, I would guess the only way to use this in production is to use Nvidias data centers to host it? Or are there other ways?

Not a lawyer, not legal advice, but... the legal status quo is that neural network outputs are not copyrightable. They are currently considered not made by humans nor considered a derivative work from the training material / network weights (assuming it's not regurgitating copyrighted material verbatim). The cc-by-nc-4.0 license applies to the network weights. The only thing non-commercial about the license is that i…

> The cc-by-nc-4.0 license applies to the network weights.

I'm not even sure if network weights are copyrightable independently of the code and data used to generate them. In my personal (not a lawyer) view, the weights of a neural network are the product of a mechanical transformation process much like a compiler or assembler, and we don't consider a compiled binary to have a copyright independent of its source code.

I still wouldn't notoriously try to violate a purported weights license, mind you, both because it's rude to ignore the authors' wishes and because it would not be fun being used by NVidia or any other deep-pocket AI company.

Re: Nvidia releases NVLM 1.0 72B open weight model

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I love how they include a helpful chart that shows this model scores worse than everything else.

Well but it actually doesn't, unless you're looking only at MMMU.

Exactly. On some benchmarks it is close to or better than GPT 4o.

I wonder if one of the reasons they released it was to respond to OpenAI's plans to enter the chipmaking market.

Re: Nvidia releases NVLM 1.0 72B open weight model

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i have yet to hear of anyone actually using AI for something properly only exception im excited about is the non-main characters from video games, where a lot of the random NPCs, can now actually bring some more fun to the game.

I run in production a system that uses LLM translation and summerization from hundreds of sources in dozens of languages. Users are extremely satisfied by the results that are far cheaper and far higher quality than what was available before

Which system is this?

Re: Nvidia releases NVLM 1.0 72B open weight model

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> I use a vision model to sort my laundry you built a robot that sorts laundry? Tell us more!

No, I never said that. But you already know that. The robot in this case is me holding a smart phone.

actually I did not and I thought it would be awesome, people on the internet have impressed me before.

Sorry if I came off negatively.

Re: Nvidia releases NVLM 1.0 72B open weight model

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I run in production a system that uses LLM translation and summerization from hundreds of sources in dozens of languages. Users are extremely satisfied by the results that are far cheaper and far higher quality than what was available before

Which system is this?

It is an inhouse system in a niche market, not available for sale. I use the OpenAI api for now with very good results, though long term I would prefer to have an on-premise solution if quality and scope (in terms of supported languages) can be maintained. Codewise, as you can imagine, the AI is a very small part of the codebase, but without it the system would be pretty useless.

I think many underestimate the true usefulness the current generation of AI has already achieved because a lot of it is in traditional, boring, bespoke or inhouse LoB systems whereas the press always focuses on public B2C

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