I would never trust the company that acquired Omnivore only to sunset it with 2 weeks notice to retrieve data.
Companies won't stop pulling this garbage unless we stop supporting them.
Companies won't stop pulling this garbage unless we stop supporting them.
I know the decisions of the Dev team were disappointing, but it's also worth pointing out that the site was kept up until around last month - despite the warning stating that'd be down in November.
Omnivore could have shut down their code base, and prevented self-hosting entirely. I'm glad they didn't.
As for contribution model, it’s still something I’m trying to figure out. For the moment, it was just trying to get a self host build ready and working.
But I have admin rights to the repo, and am not working for ElevenLabs, nor officially Omnivore. I was just a contributor before.
Open source models drive proprietary foundation models' margin to zero.
The only reason elevenlabs became a unicorn was their margin. If they became a commodity, they'd find themselves in a deep pit.