Open-Source LLMs - Schneier on Security
www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/06/open-source-llms.html
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.