And in that case, will the Llama fork be the same as the Meta fork? We are talking about AI that has a considerable development, companies would probably not participate because it is not an open source license and its clause limits in those aspects.

Llama has tons of commercial use even with its “non open” license, which is basically just a middle finger to companies the size of Google or Microsoft. And yes, companies would keep using the old weights like nothing changed… because nothing did. Just like they keep using open source software that goes through drama.

Also you have to think that if the new version of Llama with the new license is 3 times better than Llama with the previous license, do you really think that the community will continue to develop the previous version?

Honestly I have zero short term worries about this because the space is so fiercely competitive. Also much of the ecosystem (like huggingface and inference libraries) is open source and out of their control.

And if they go API only, honestly they will just get clobbered by Google, Claude, Deepseek or whomever.

In the longer term… transformers will be obsolete anyway.