Bruce Schneier's offered the item below on the democratisation of large
language models. Any other leads on the topic much appreciated!
Open-Source LLMs
2 Jun 2023
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/06/open-source-llms.html
In February, Meta released its large language model: LLaMA. Unlike
OpenAI and its ChatGPT, Meta didn’t just give the world a chat window to
play with. Instead, it released the code into the open-source community,
and shortly thereafter the model itself was leaked. Researchers and
programmers immediately started modifying it, improving it, and getting
it to do things no one else anticipated. And their results have been
immediate, innovative, and an indication of how the future of this
technology is going to play out. Training speeds have hugely increased,
and the size of the models themselves has shrunk to the point that you
can create and run them on a laptop. The world of AI research has
dramatically changed.
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