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Re:Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents by KierPrev on Friday March 03, 2023 @06:47AM (#35008300)
Why is Meta open sourcing its AI through torrent?

Or am I understanding it all wrong

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Re:Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents by drclegg on Friday March 03, 2023 @06:50AM (#35008321)
Sending via HTTP will incur bandwidth costs. Torrents massively reduce this cost in the long run by making it P2P.

Edit: maybe in this case it's a leak though

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Re:Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents by Technotroll on Friday March 03, 2023 @06:54AM (#35008354)
Torrent can also be really, really fast with enough seeders, even giving CDNs a run for their money.
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Re:Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents by IceWreck on Friday March 03, 2023 @06:57AM (#35008373)
Theyre giving it to universities for free. Someone got access and then made PR with a link to the torrent
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Re:Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents by rnosov on Friday March 03, 2023 @06:49AM (#35008316)
it's a pull request from ChristopherKing42. He is unlikely to be associated with Meta.
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Re:Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents by gorbypark on Friday March 03, 2023 @08:56AM (#35009681)
It seems like the model has been leaked (not by Meta) and is being distributed via a torrent. Someone has created a PR to the repo as a joke, suggesting that instead of filling out a form and waiting to be granted access (which is the official way to get access to the model), that you could just download it via the torrent.
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