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LLaMA accelerates the open-model ecosystem
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LLaMA accelerates the open-model ecosystem
Meta introduced a family of smaller foundation language models intended to make high-performance research more accessible.
LLaMA and its successors helped fuel an ecosystem of fine-tuned and locally deployable models. “Open” remained a contested description because licences, training data and release conditions differed from conventional open-source software, but the shift reduced dependence on hosted proprietary systems.
