Comment by spaceman_2020
7 months ago
The real users for these open source models are businesses that want something on premises for data privacy reasons
Not sure if they’ll trust a Chinese model but dropping $50-100k for a quantized model that replaces, say, 10 paralegals is good enough for a law firm
An on-premise,open source Chinese model for my business,or a closed source American model from a company that's a defense contractor .Shouldn’t be too difficult a decision to make.
Even if they provide the code/data and not just the weights, aren't you taking their word for it that the weights were trained using that code, and not modified? Or is there some way to verify that?
I don't care .I'm hosting LLM and I can train or modify it the way I like. I'll have this authoritarian open source any day