Open-Source LLMs

2023-06-02 14:21

Building on public models like Meta's LLaMa, the open-source community has innovated in ways that allow results nearly as good as the huge models-but run on home machines with common data sets.

Much of the modern internet was built on open-source technologies from the LAMP stack-a suite of applications often used in web development.

Open-source communities span countries and cultures, making it difficult to ensure that any country's laws will be respected by the community.

While there are companies that profit from supporting software produced by open-source projects like Linux, Python, or the Apache web server, those communities are not profit driven.

There are many open-source models to choose from.

The large companies may respond by trying to retrench and pulling their models back from the open-source community.

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