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Re:Mistral 7B, the most powerful language model for its size... by artursapek on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @10:59PM (#37684664)
The JPEG analogy makes no sense. A more correct analogy is: they released compiled binaries, not the source code.

The difference is though, here compiling from source is prohibitively expensive for the average person. And the source is massive.

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Re:Mistral 7B, the most powerful language model for its size... by uoaei on Thursday September 28, 2023 @03:18AM (#37686395)
My analogy makes perfect sense.

Also, being able to reverse-engineer the precise build process is an orthogonal concern to having the source code available.

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