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by jononor 1775 days ago
What closed NVidia thing did they adopt? I don't see any evidence of that here.
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option 1775 days ago
https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo which is open source, Pytorch based and regularly publishes new models and checkpoints.
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Seirdy 1775 days ago
The source code is under a FLOSS license, but it only works on Nvidia GPUs and uses proprietary Nvidia-specific technologies like CUDA.

It's significantly closer to "nonfree" on the free-nonfree spectrum than it should be, and is another example of the difference between the guiding philosophies behind "free software" and "open source"

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yorwba 1775 days ago
Can't you run it on CPU? And looking at the code, it seems like they're using Numba to JIT their CUDA kernels, so I guess someone could come along and provide a compatibility shim to make the kernels run on a non-CUDA accelerator?
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rasz 1775 days ago
Im sure they signed on adopting "something", otherwise it would be receiving $1.5 million grant for closing open source initiative. $3 million a year lawyer wouldn never be this blatant.
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