Meta is creating significant pressure for OpenAI and Google by making it's AI model available for commercial use
Meta intends to offer a commercial license for their next open-source LLM, enabling companies to freely utilize and profit from their AI model.
Rn their LLM is currently limited to research purposes only. Opening it up for commercial use would drive its adoption even further.
Engineers are experimenting with LLaMA as a side project. Unfortunately, they are unable to integrate these models into their commercial software. Meta's commercial license would be a crucial breakthrough for rapid adoption.
Stanford Alpaca LLaMa is the most advanced of the efforts. You can go get it to run on your machine right now.
Unfortunately it seems to require heavy duty hardware to run. Transformers require a large amount of compute, and OpenAI (Microsoft) have done exactly that with ChatGPT.
I don't doubt open source LLMs being able to compete and solve these issues (cc: "There is no moat) but I don't think open source will be a silver bullet
Heavy models can run on macbooks. The whole ggml and Llama cpp project.