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There are two clauses in the llama license that I’m aware of that are restrictive:

1) if you have more than 700M daily active users you can’t use it.

2) you can’t use the output of this model to train other models.

Are you aware of others, cause I’m not, and those aren’t unreasonable.

The TOS also outlines a number of restricted use cases, which are broader than other models. For example, Llama prohibits any ITAR related use, while Anthropic limits specific usage related to defense and weapons. (There are many peaceful technologies that are covered by ITAR).

Actually - fair enough, I think I was overestimating how much people consider the ability to use the output to train your own models important. I guess for me these felt really restrictive since that always felt like the end game - collect a bunch of data, then train a smaller, cheaper to run model for a specific use case - but I’m clearly an outlier!

I think you are misunderstanding just a bit. You can certainly fine-tune/train LLAMA for a specific use case. Just grab LLAMA 7B and start training, that will fit on plenty of devices and you can even quantize the weights and make it run faster (and on even smaller devices).

What you cannot do is use LLAMA outputs to train your ChatGPT weights.

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