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The good news is that it’s open source so it can be improved by the community.

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Until when? What guarantee does the community have that they won't go private monetization route like you-know-who

This model is open source. Period. Whether they close off future models is irrelevant to whether this one is open.

The model weights are out under an irrevocable license, so forever.

what is the financial incentive to make it open-source?

Everything accrues to OpenAI if it's not.

More companies should be releasing models as open source and liberally licensed if they want to keep a seat at the table. Otherwise they'll get washed away.

> Everything accrues to OpenAI if it's not.

because OpenAI is not open-source? Then a closed source StableLM would accrue value to Stability?

Nobody gives a damn about closed source StableLM. It'll die off in the evolutionary fight as strictly inferior. (How many people are using Claude or Bard?)

By being open source, StableLM will grow with the community. An ecosystem of mods, plugins, libraries, frontends, and more will be developed. Different companies will even compare notes and contribute upstream. Everyone participating wins.

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