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David Huang's avatar

Love how the ending illustration literally shows code upfront :P

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Nathan Lambert's avatar

Thoughts on open source vs open weights? I’m mostly happy it’s no longer the center of the discussion but it’ll come back eventually.

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Nathan Lambert's avatar

I mean in the use of the words mostly, maybe I’m not specific enough. Lots of true open source ai people wouldn’t count this as open source

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Kevin Xu's avatar

Oh I know, I was one of them ;)

I'm not a purist in this regard, more a pragmatist. Having model weights be open under OSI licenses, as opposed to corporate licenses with an arbitrary MAU threshold, is already major progress.

Further opening up the tooling is also a welcoming sign.

To push for more open source, someone needs to: 1. go first; 2. be competitive enough to force the hand of others to follow.

DS forced OAI's hand in ways Llama couldn't.

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Nathan Lambert's avatar

Yeah, I think things like OpenMDW license will be used in due time.

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