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I still don’t understand the business model of releasing open source gen AI models. If this took 3072 H100s to train, why are they releasing it for free? I understand they charge people when renting from their platform, but why permit people to run it themselves?

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> but why permit people to run it themselves?

I wouldn't worry about that if I were them: it's been shown again and again that people will pay for convenience.

What I'd worry about is Amazon/Cloudflare repackaging my model and outcompeting my platform.

> What I'd worry about is Amazon/Cloudflare repackaging my model and outcompeting my platform.

Why let Amazon/Cloudflare repackage it?

How would you stop them?

The license is Apache 2.

That's my question -- why license as Apache 2

What license would allow complete freedom for everyone else, but constrain Amazon and Cloudflare?

The LLaMa license is a good start.

They could just create a custom license based of Apache 2.0 that allows sharing but constraints some specific behavior. It won't be formally Open Source, but will have enough open source spirit that academics or normal people will be happy to use it.

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