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But who cares? Like not morally-open-access-sounds-nice but actual impact. Open-access to these models is nice but only commercial enterprises can afford the compute requirements for a massive LLM. So an AGPL type model would just sit on the hard drives of like 30 people who have a hobby to heat their home with GPUs.



It allows for research to continue, which might eventually benefit everyone. The primary advantage in my mind is giving academy a chance to learn from it and community to build cool stuff on top of it.




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