[artninja1988]

The statement on you not being able to use LLaMA 2 to benchmark is also false and highly misleading see https://x.com/BlancheMinerva/status/1760302091166241163?s=20

[lordswork]

    If, on the Llama 2 version release date, the monthly active users [...] is greater than 700 million monthly active users [...] you are not authorized to exercise any of the rights under this Agreement

I would guess this is Google being careful to not be burned by this lame clause in the Llama 2 license.

[not2b]

It's aimed directly at them (and OpenAI and Microsoft) so they have to honor it if they don't want a legal battle. But there's nothing stopping others from doing benchmarking.

[lucubratory]

For the reference of people seeing this now: The tweet that person linked has now been deleted and the scientist who tweeted it has acknowledged they were wrong and retracted their claim, as all good scientists should.