There seem to be a lot of confused commenters here. This is the content of an as-yet-unmerged pull request, and presumably not something that Facebook approves of.
Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents
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#22What's the point of the form if it's freely accessible? This might be revolutionary in the LLM field, as Stable Diffusion was to DALL-E.
The user who submitted the pull request is not part of Meta or Facebook Research, and the users who signed off on reviewing the changes don’t appear to be either. I highly doubt Meta will approve the pull request. The models are being distributed by torrent by someone with access to the models, not by Meta themselves as far as we know. They likely still intend to distribute via the form. This is just someone publicizing the torrent link by being cheeky on GitHub.
(As they didn’t reply to my request for the model - I specified it was for personal use and my use case was “I think it would be fun to run it on my own hardware” - I appreciate this little stunt a great deal!)
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#23In 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 w…
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#24Is there anything stopping anyone from using this for commercial purposes? I know that when you fill in the google form you need to agree to noncommercial use, but someone downloading this will never have agreed to that licence agreement.
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#25Here is the magnet link for posterity: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ZXXDAUWYLRUXXBHUYEMS6Q5CE5WA3LVA&dn=LLaMA
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#27opt-175B weights are already openly available as I understand. Hugging-face also has openly available weights for a 176B parameter LLM called Bloom. Is LLAMA offering something over and above these?
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#28Why 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
Torrent can also be really, really fast with enough seeders, even giving CDNs a run for their money.
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#29Re: Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents
#30In 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 w…
It's not even clear someone has leaked the models. A random person has put a download link on a PR, it could be anything.