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IBM Granite: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence

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Re: IBM Granite: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence

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Llama and Mistral are already local & fulfill these requirements

IBM goes at great lengths to train models on clean data that has lower risk of copyright or legal issues attached. Just take a look at the model description. That data issue is important enough for some companies to pick mediocre model over llama or mistral.

What if I told you that a lot of freely licensed code on GitHub is not clean? That the authors may have read something and rewritten it in a way that wasn’t transformative? So it basically has the same problems.

Re: IBM Granite: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence

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Enterprises think differently. They want data provenance, privacy, ability to mitigate/transfer risk etc. If IBM is willing to offer that, there will be enterprises that bite.

Llama and Mistral are already local & fulfill these requirements

Can I sue Lamma and Mistral if things go wrong?

Re: IBM Granite: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence

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That's a pretty outdated phrase, even in enterprise.

By no means it is an outdated phrase. Ask any startup sales person!

I personally know a VP who was fired for buying "IBM Cloud." You can absolutely get flak for choosing IBM these days, even at a stodgy enterprise.

The gist is still current, but you need to fill in AWS as the current uncontroversial choice.

Re: IBM Granite: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence

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IBM do a mixture of shovelware and extremely hardcore tech so they could honestly go either way with this.

> mixture of shovelware and extremely hardcore tech Citation needed All I've seen from them in my professional experience is actually legacy mainframe maintenance.. Not shovelware, but very far from hardcore tech.

Non-mainframe maintenance:

https://research.ibm.com/blog/ibm-molecule-generation-experi...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ibm-engineers-push...

Re: IBM Granite: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence

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I wonder why companies like IBM are jumping on the LLM bandwagon and training/releasing models that have no chance of competing with Llama/Mistral? To me it just looks like a complete waste of $$ because nobody will use them in any serious scenarios

IBM made $60 billion in revenue last year. Where do you think it all came from? The same companies/governments that buy their overpriced crap are going to buy these new LLMs as well.

These are open weight models released under an Apache 2.0 license. There's nothing to buy.
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