Meta’s Open Source Llama Upsets the AI Horse Race
23 points by SoftwareDev6 1 year ago | 6 comments- commoner 1 year agoDisappointing to see Wired uncritically repeat Meta's deceptive marketing. Llama 2 is not open source because it does not allow unrestricted use. In addition to the "Acceptable Use Policy" and the "700 million users" restriction mentioned in the article, Meta also does not allow any user to use Llama 2 to improve other LLMs, which is another usage restriction that prevents Llama 2 from being open source:
> v. You will not use the Llama Materials or any output or results of the Llama Materials to improve any other large language model (excluding Llama 2 or derivative works thereof).
https://ai.meta.com/llama/license/
On the other hand, Ars Technica correctly saw through Meta's deceptive marketing to discern that, despite Meta branding Llama 2 as "open source", Llama 2 is only source-available: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/meta-...
- ilaksh 1 year agoI don't know if they mention Code Llama but that has been a huge milestone. But from what I've heard it's still at least 15% behind GPT-4 for code. But open models are gaining ground.
Although ChatGPT Enterprise kind of changes the benchmark again in away.
- Havoc 1 year ago>But from what I've heard it's still at least 15% behind GPT-4 for code
More. But you're comparing the performance of something that runs on a macbook vs something out of a datacenter full of H100s.
- ChatGTP 1 year agoI guess the idea here is that it's probably not wise to blindly invest $10BUSD on something which might be ubiquitous and free in 6 months.
- Havoc 1 year ago
- matteoraso 1 year agoI think this article is overstating things a bit. Chatgpt already lets you finetune the AI for your own use, so it's not like releasing LLaMa-2 as open source is going to seriously change things by a whole lot.
- kadoban 1 year agoFor me it's night and day. I absolutely refuse to rely on something like chatgpt that can be changed or removed at someone else's whim.
- kadoban 1 year ago