[HN Gopher] Falcon 40B LLM (which beats Llama) now Apache 2.0
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       Falcon 40B LLM (which beats Llama) now Apache 2.0
        
       Author : convexstrictly
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2023-05-31 22:21 UTC (40 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (twitter.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | convexstrictly wrote:
       | https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-40b
        
       | LrnByTeach wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | convexstrictly wrote:
         | 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
        
       | version_five wrote:
       | I saw this, I still am highly suspicious about the future of
       | these models and later attempts at monetization. Did they really
       | just drop their 10% royalty thing and decide they'll just open
       | source all their models now?
       | 
       | Another comment mentions llama may get an open license, and there
       | are other emerging alternatives. In six months there will be lots
       | of options. I would not spend my time building anything around a
       | model that started in such a sketchy way.
       | 
       | It would be interesting to hear about why they decided to change
       | their license and what their plans are for the future.
       | 
       | I admit Falcon has really pissed my off because they pretended
       | they had an open source model when they really released a sleazy
       | freemium thing.
        
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