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Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents

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Re: Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents

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Post by papruapap »

KaiserPro wrote: post #5

old school opensource, which is a bit surprising from meta. I wonder how they managed to square that with legal. Someone must have been very good friends with Zuck.

is it?[0]

The worst offender is AMZ, all the rest big tech are pretty open-source friendly.

0:https://opensource.fb.com/projects/

Re: Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents

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Post by drbscl »

KierPrev wrote: post #9

Why is Meta open sourcing its AI through torrent? Or am I understanding it all wrong

Sending via HTTP will incur bandwidth costs. Torrents massively reduce this cost in the long run by making it P2P.

Edit: maybe in this case it's a leak though

Re: Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents

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Post by ot »

In case it's not clear what's happening here (and from the comments it doesn't seem like it is), someone (not Meta) leaked the models and had the brilliant idea of advertising the magnet link through a GitHub pull request. The part about saving bandwidth is a joke. Meta employees may have not noticed or are still figuring out how to react, so the PR is still up.

(Disclaimer: I work at Meta, but have no relationship with the team that owns the models and have no internal information on this)

Re: Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents

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Post by 4bpp »

Since the point seems to be lost on some of the early commenters, this appears to be a cheeky PR by someone unaffiliated with Facebook, suggesting that they put a magnet link to (what seems to be) a leak of the model weights along with the previously existing invitation to apply to receive them on their own page.
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