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Act III · The ChatGPT moment

Open modelMeta

Llama 2: now commercially usable

Open weights, free for most companies to use commercially.

7B – 70Bparameters

Why it matters

For the first time, companies could legally build products on a strong open base model, and the open ecosystem truly took off.

Costs and controversy

The license is not a standard open-source license; companies with over 700M monthly users must apply separately.

Built on

LLaMA

Led to

Llama 3

Source: arxiv.org ↗

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