Re:Code Llama, an AI tool for coding
by coder543 on Thursday August 24, 2023 @10:39AM
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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.
Re:Code Llama, an AI tool for coding
by jspisak on Thursday August 24, 2023 @11:07AM
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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 :)
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