The point is cultivating dependency under the color of "open source" is not generally wise.
Users of the "open source" LLM do not have all the software freedoms normally associated with "open source."
They cannot rebuild it and more. Important pieces are missing the "open" part.
Someone says, "here, take this awesome math library, it is open." Then users find out there is a brittle binary blob needed for the whole thing to work.
Nobody will want to build on or with it because that blob works, until it doesn't and when it does work, people are not sure what it does exactly.
Makes the whole thing a lot more like free beer.
In the scheme of things right now, particularly given both the pace of change, and up coming corruption due to feeding models their own output, anyone's latest may just not be relevant that long.
The point is cultivating dependency under the color of "open source" is not generally wise.
Users of the "open source" LLM do not have all the software freedoms normally associated with "open source."
They cannot rebuild it and more. Important pieces are missing the "open" part.
Someone says, "here, take this awesome math library, it is open." Then users find out there is a brittle binary blob needed for the whole thing to work.
Nobody will want to build on or with it because that blob works, until it doesn't and when it does work, people are not sure what it does exactly.
Makes the whole thing a lot more like free beer.
In the scheme of things right now, particularly given both the pace of change, and up coming corruption due to feeding models their own output, anyone's latest may just not be relevant that long.