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This Falcon-40B royalty free license may force Meta ... that LLama-7B/13B may soon be fully open sourced as Meta wants open source LLM advancements and contributions on its own LLM architecture.
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Do you consider the Unity model "sleazy"? But I agree that it was poor form to call it open-source at the time. Sadly, it seems to be standard practice in the LLM space to release models with all kinds of restrictions on use and call them "open source". Well now Falcon is open source. Given they are giving away something that was very expensive to train, I am grateful.
I don't know unity's model. I call Falcon sleazy because the royalty stuff (plus a bunch of absurd related terms) were buried in the license while the headline said open source. I'm not against commercial products, nor products with free and premium tiers. This otoh felt, like I say, just sleazy.
This Falcon-40B royalty free license may force Meta ... that LLama-7B/13B may soon be fully open sourced as Meta wants open source LLM advancements and contributions on its own LLM architecture.
There's no advantage here. Meta just spent $10 million on releasing fun chaos into the world and increasing their recruiting power.
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Well if its Apache 2.0 now, can't you clone it as-is and have it be open "forever?"
That's part of why I'm interested in their motivation changing licenses. They obviously had a profit motive and a model that centered on collecting rents on the model and decided to back off from it. Will they keep maintaining their code and improving the models and continue releasing everything under Apache 2.0? I'm just saying I feel like we got a glimpse of what they're about and it wasn't pretty, so why build aro…
Look at Stable Diffusion 1.5 and LLaMA: They are thriving, but the original implementations are ancient history, and Meta/StabilityAI/RunawayML have done precisely nothing. And to be blunt, their legality is very ugly, which already makes Falcon more attractive.
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That's part of why I'm interested in their motivation changing licenses. They obviously had a profit motive and a model that centered on collecting rents on the model and decided to back off from it. Will they keep maintaining their code and improving the models and continue releasing everything under Apache 2.0? I'm just saying I feel like we got a glimpse of what they're about and it wasn't pretty, so why build aro…
They dont need to do squat. Look at Stable Diffusion 1.5 and LLaMA: They are thriving, but the original implementations are ancient history, and Meta/StabilityAI/RunawayML have done precisely nothing. And to be blunt, their legality is very ugly, which already makes Falcon more attractive.
Inference is very slow right now but it works!
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They dont need to do squat. Look at Stable Diffusion 1.5 and LLaMA: They are thriving, but the original implementations are ancient history, and Meta/StabilityAI/RunawayML have done precisely nothing. And to be blunt, their legality is very ugly, which already makes Falcon more attractive.
Very good point, if a community builds up around it, that would make it much more attractive. So chicken / egg in a way. I can definitely see that happening.
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That's part of why I'm interested in their motivation changing licenses. They obviously had a profit motive and a model that centered on collecting rents on the model and decided to back off from it. Will they keep maintaining their code and improving the models and continue releasing everything under Apache 2.0? I'm just saying I feel like we got a glimpse of what they're about and it wasn't pretty, so why build aro…
They dont need to do squat. Look at Stable Diffusion 1.5 and LLaMA: They are thriving, but the original implementations are ancient history, and Meta/StabilityAI/RunawayML have done precisely nothing. And to be blunt, their legality is very ugly, which already makes Falcon more attractive.
Does "disparage" have a settled meaning in law? Is a parody disparaging?
https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion/blob/main/LICENS...
This Falcon-40B royalty free license may force Meta ... that LLama-7B/13B may soon be fully open sourced as Meta wants open source LLM advancements and contributions on its own LLM architecture.
Meta's eventual, internal LLM architecture will be totally different than the open source LLMs, right? They don’t need to run on commodity hardware. Maybe I am cynical, but I dont see the incentive for Meta to contribute an open model.
This Falcon-40B royalty free license may force Meta ... that LLama-7B/13B may soon be fully open sourced as Meta wants open source LLM advancements and contributions on its own LLM architecture.
Yann LeCun: "No. But it's not because we don't want to. It's because of complicated legal issues." https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1651782621540524032