[jszymborski]

> D.O.A without adoption from the major model labs

I definitely disagree. Adoption of open licenses has historically been "bottom-up", starting with academia and hobbyists and then eventually used by big names. I have zero idea why that can't be the case here.

I know I'll be releasing my models under an open license once finalized.

[Incipient]

Where hobbyists and small players could release code as easily as anyone big...i don't believe that's the case with AI, especially llms. Is it not only the large companies that are able to release meaningful content?

[jszymborski]

Important work still gets done on smaller models using consumer GPUs. I've trained protein LLMs for my PhD on as little as a single RTX 3090. This is even more so the case with Computer Vision.