They are just desperate to gain market share as fast as possible, because the proprietary business model is already dead. Llama-2 is open to commercial use and mostly open source. Like, I hate meta more than most, but the guy in charge of AI, VP, Yann LeCun is a former Bell Labs guy and is full steam ahead on Open Source. The benchmarks for the latest model are really good even at the 7B level. (You need twice the VRAM of the base weights to run a model so 7B = 14GB VRAM on a GPU). This is accessible on mid level hardware and it can be run with no major strings attached for anything less than 700M users. There are already versions of this model available without the safety filter lobotomy too. In the next few months, paying stupid subscription services to stalk you will be relegated to people who do not care about, or understand the implications of, protecting one’s privacy and freedom of information.
They are just desperate to gain market share as fast as possible, because the proprietary business model is already dead. Llama-2 is open to commercial use and mostly open source. Like, I hate meta more than most, but the guy in charge of AI, VP, Yann LeCun is a former Bell Labs guy and is full steam ahead on Open Source. The benchmarks for the latest model are really good even at the 7B level. (You need twice the VRAM of the base weights to run a model so 7B = 14GB VRAM on a GPU). This is accessible on mid level hardware and it can be run with no major strings attached for anything less than 700M users. There are already versions of this model available without the safety filter lobotomy too. In the next few months, paying stupid subscription services to stalk you will be relegated to people who do not care about, or understand the implications of, protecting one’s privacy and freedom of information.