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A comment on Fifteen Times Faster Than Llama 2: Introducing DeciLM LLM with Variable GQA.

Re:Fifteen Times Faster Than Llama 2: Introducing DeciLM LLM... by slimsag on Friday September 15, 2023 @09:40PM (#37531169)
> permissively licensed, open-source foundation LLM

Sounds great

> This license is, in part, based on the LLAMA 2 Community License Agreement, with a series of modifications. Use of DeciLM for hosted services may require a separate license.

Ah, so a bait-and-switch. It's not open source, and not permissively licensed.

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Re:Fifteen Times Faster Than Llama 2: Introducing DeciLM LLM... by generalizations on Friday September 15, 2023 @10:02PM (#37531295)
Call it "limited open source" or something, but the dishonesty leaves a worse taste than admitting it's not open source.
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Re:Fifteen Times Faster Than Llama 2: Introducing DeciLM LLM... by karim79 on Friday September 15, 2023 @10:11PM (#37531353)
Three pricing tiers and no listed prices on the "pricing" page. Only the option to talk to sales. So, depending on the outcome of the conversation one could end up paying less for the Enterprise tier than for the Basic one.

No single indicator of a starting/base price.

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Re:Fifteen Times Faster Than Llama 2: Introducing DeciLM LLM... by SubiculumCode on Friday September 15, 2023 @10:14PM (#37531367)
Well, I admit that I now feel bad for posting it to HN; I should have looked at the actual details of the license rather than the headline they are trying to sell.
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Re:Fifteen Times Faster Than Llama 2: Introducing DeciLM LLM... by calderknight on Friday September 15, 2023 @10:27PM (#37531443)
Just call it what it is: proprietary, nonfree software
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Re:Fifteen Times Faster Than Llama 2: Introducing DeciLM LLM... by demarq on Saturday September 16, 2023 @01:06AM (#37532205)
This doesn’t make sense, they don’t control Meta. They have absolutely nothing to do with that part of the license
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Re:Fifteen Times Faster Than Llama 2: Introducing DeciLM LLM... by jules22 on Saturday September 16, 2023 @02:19AM (#37532457)
They seem to have edited out "open-source" now.

Still, a free for personal use model is better than none. Hopefully, we will soon have some adaptation from Llama 2 that matches it, fairly soon.

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