I wish that Meta would release models like SeamlessM4T[0] under the same license as llama, or an even better one. I don't understand the rationale for keeping it under a completely non-commercial license, but I agree that is better than not releasing anything at all.

There seem to be opportunities for people to use technology like SeamlessM4T to improve lives, if it were licensed correctly, and I don't see how any commercial offering from smaller companies would compete with anything that Meta does.

Whisper is licensed more permissively and does a great job with speech to text in some languages, and it can translate to English only, but it can't translate between a large number of languages, and it doesn't have any kind of text to speech or speech to speech capabilities. SeamlessM4T seems like it would be an all-around upgrade.

[0]: https://github.com/facebookresearch/seamless_communication

Yeah - different projects have different goals and licenses aren't one size fits all. Depending on the project, type of technology, goals, etc.. we will select or even develop the right license that aligns with those goals. Hope this helps :)

Sorry—who are you and what are the Connect talks? I haven't heard of them and you don't have a bio.

I guess that's what he is referring to: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jspisak_home-fully-connected-...

That'll be Joseph Spisak, Head of Generative AI Open Source at Meta AI.

what is that?

Facebook Connect is what used to be called Oculus Connect. Kinda their equivalent of Apple's WWDC, I guess. It's when and where the Quest 3 will be officially unveiled in full, for example.

Yep - here is the site: https://www.metaconnect.com/en/home

Excited! I hope your talks are just as informative as this comment. Keep rocking!