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Llama 2 is Communist
Meta-Microsoft looks to democratise LLMs with Llama 2, but here’s a catch, it is not easily accessible for companies that have more than 700 million active users, such as Apple, Google and Amazon
- By Mohit Pandey
Meta has been touted as the biggest proponent of open source. Building on the success of LLaMa, the company decided to partner with Microsoft and release Llama 2, an “open source” model for commercial use. In just two days, the entire AI ecosystem has been discussing how Meta is building an open source community, while OpenAI is keeping its technology closed.
Interestingly, diving deeper into the release, it does not take much searching to realise that Llama 2 is not exactly open source. According to the commercial licence put forth by the company, any company that is going to use Llama 2 with an active monthly user base of 700 million or more would be required to "request" to gain access to the model.
This means that Meta has the right to finally decide if a company
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Mohit Pandey
Mohit writes about AI in simple, explainable, and often funny words. He's especially passionate about chatting with those building AI for Bharat, with the occasional detour into AGI.
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