Unsurprisingly then, a coterie of open-source-is-what-the-OSI-says-it-is advocates (word: I’ve traditionally been on this camp) are castigating Meta for calling its Llama massive language mannequin (LLM) open supply, regardless of restrictions that fall wanting the OSI’s Open Supply Definition. The trade’s response has been a collective shrug. See, for instance, “Why Meta LLaMA Fashions Are Open Supply” — a title that should drive OSI of us loopy. A part of this stems from, as one HackerNews commentator says, the concept “Meta, by way of the Llama fashions, has performed extra for open supply LLMs than simply about anybody else.” Rewinding even additional, open sourcerors can look to Apache Cassandra, React, GraphQL, PyTorch, and different Meta tasks that met the OSI’s bar for open supply.
It’s arduous to get too grumpy with an organization that has created among the trade’s most necessary open supply tasks.
And but some persons are very grumpy, even though there was (and is) no settled definition for open supply in AI. Sure, the OSI lastly launched a definition of open supply for AI, the Open Supply AI Definition 1.0, however, as with cloud, the OSI is enjoying catch-up, and its definition has dissatisfied a few of its most ardent supporters by not dictating that coaching information even be open.