Can you say all that but with synonyms of the words “open” and “close” where they aren’t part of names?
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brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 week agoI know Meta has some heavy sins, but they’ve pushed ‘open’ ML a long time. They developed, and continue to fund PyTorch, and they basically standardized the open LLM architecture with Llama to the point literally everyone uses it almost unmodified now, just to name two examples.
They also have a commercial interest in their open weight model ecosystem succeeding over OpenAI’s completely closed models and research. And TBH they have a good shot, as OpenAI really seem to have stagnated.
Also, Altman is a straight up con artist. I wouldn’t be surprised if Facebook employees hate him.
Mango@lemmy.world 1 week ago
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Call them ClosedAI like the community does, and it’s much easier, lol.
MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
If Open AI becomes for-profit, it will have more resources to finance itself. It is currently in a similar situation to Mozilla, and it is not the first case, there have been several.
One example was Mastercard, but in the process it created a foundation with the same name and it is also very rich. Open AI will probably follow a similar path
Also, Llama is not open source according to the OSI
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s not open source, but open weights, documented, relatively permissively licensed and all the inference/finetuning libraries for it are open source.
MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
I understand, but Meta has the rights to Llama and at any time they can change that license to make it less open just to make more money.
Currently it is open weight to attract customers, because once there are no competitors they will start to squeeze them.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Also competition is stiff. Alibaba is currently handing their butts to them with Qwen 2.5. Deepseek (a Chinese startup), tencent and Mistral (French) are giving them a run for their money too, and there are even some that “continue train” their old weights.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No, they can’t, because you can just pull the git repo with the old license as use them as they were at the time of upload, just like any software on a git repository. And too many people have them downloaded to delete them from the internet.
There are also finetunes inheriting the old license, and those orga are not going to pull the weights.