[kacperlukawski]

Unfortunately, it's no longer open source, but requires using their cloud.

"From 0.5.0, Finetuner computing is hosted on Jina Cloud. THe last local version is 0.4.1, one can install it via pip or check out git tags/releases here."

[artex_xh]

but does being "opensource" naturally make a software good in quality & performance? In the end, people try to solve a problem right?

[kacperlukawski]

Of course, solving a problem is the most important thing at the end of the day. However, there are some data privacy constraints you may sometimes need to fulfil, and sending the data to an external cloud, managed by 3rd party is not an option.

Moreover, fine-tuning might be just one of the applications of neural networks in the organization, and you may already have some pipelines built to train them, so it should be also unified.

And more importantly, Jina's finetuner gives you some pretrained models to choose from, while Quaterion is PyTorch Lightning based, so you can easily integrate it if you already use PyTorch and have the flexibility to fine-tune any custom network as well.

[artex_xh]

anyway, congrats on the release :P and I upvoted! so we are good.