Meta has built a new language AI–and it’s giving it away for free

> “I applaud the transparency here,” says Emily M. Bender, a computational linguist at the University of Washington

Then on https://ai.facebook.com/blog/democratizing-access-to-large-s... :

> request access to OPT-175B here

> Pretrained models are all licensed under the OPT-175B License Agreement.

If you want "transparency" and kudos for releasing something "openly", why not just release it actually openly and without some complex license agreement?

"Meta’s move is the first time that a fully trained large language model will be made available to any researcher who wants to study it." - Is that true? Isn't GPT-2 open source? I mean, I am totally onboard with releasing models like this as open source but Meta isn't the first one to do it...