# Open-Source LLMs - Schneier on Security

<https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/06/open-source-llms.html>

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## What Jamie wrote

When Facebook (Meta) open-sourced LLaMa it wasn't obvious to me how big of a strategic thing that was. It has opened up a whole line of innovation with LLMs.

> More importantly, these smaller and faster LLMs are much more accessible and easier to experiment with. Rather than needing tens of thousands of machines and millions of dollars to train a new model, an existing model can now be customized on a mid-priced laptop in a few hours. This fosters rapid innovation.

It is good that this alternative path exists in addition to the closed, commercial efforts underway.

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