Hi, this is Vipul, I am a co-founder of Together. We plan to release the model weights under Apache 2.0. The amount of creativity that Stable Diffusion unleashed for instance is only really possible with permissive licenses!
While I am not a lawyer and Apache 2.0 is likely to be unproblematic, I always find it puzzling as to why people recently are opting to license non-software using software licenses (Apache 2.0 in particular). Hopefully you have access to sensible lawyers, but I was always under the expectation that model weights would fall under a license such as CC-BY rather than Apache 2.0. Sadly it has been too long since I read the recommendations and justifications for this, so I can not find a good reference, but seem to recall the advice came out of FSF.
Either way, huge fan, it would be awesome to have a LLaMA set of weights that are fully open.
We are appreciative to the work done by the growing open-source AI community that made this project possible.
That includes:
Participants in building the RedPajama dataset including […] LAION.
Meta AI — […].
EleutherAI — This project is built on the backs of the great team at EleutherAI — including the source code they provided for training GPT-NeoX.
An award of computer time was provided by the INCITE program. This research also used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported under Contract DE-AC05-00OR22725.”