Comment by krasi0
4 years ago
Yet another gem by the genius Fabrice B!
I kinda understand why he would not release the source code. Perhaps, he's finally decided to monetize some of his coding skills. Maybe in the future, he'll start releasing some of those newer and bigger models to the public given that other big corps like FB have started already doing so (GPT-NeoX and OPT - as mentioned in the sibling comment by infinityio)
Yes, TextSynth.com is a commercial service, see pricing [1]. If his code is faster than others' (I'd certainly believe it) then it's quite valuable, and he deserves to be able to monetise it. Edit: Also, OpenAI is slashing price for GPT-3 by 2-3x tomorrow because of "progress in making our models more efficient to run" [2].
Also, he was/is competing for the Hutter Prize with nncp, however he is outside the requirements for the prize: CPU-time, RAM, but most especially that submissions shouldn't require a modern CPU (with AVX-2) or a GPU. Otherwise he could have won it. I suspect it's actually that's the biggest reason he implemented libnc without GPU support initially. He has asked for the rules to be changed to allow AVX2 and I believe they eventually will be. So he won't give away the source for nncp yet, but will have to open source it to receive the prize.
[1] https://textsynth.com/pricing.html
[2] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6485334-openai-api-prici...