Q: Is Microsoft-research-license Open-source ?
"Our model hasn't been fine-tuned through reinforcement learning from human feedback. The intention behind crafting this open-source model is to provide the research community with a non-restricted small model to explore vital safety challenges, such as reducing toxicity, understanding societal biases, enhancing controllability, and more."
The term "open-source" in LLM and ML in general is different... The model itself is not even a software, arguably it can't be open sourced then. The more appropriate term is open-weight.
As for the license, it's a permissive non-commercial one, probably FSF compliant but not OSI.
Personally, I wouldn't say it is open sourced. I agree with @zakoman that the term "open source" in LLMs is different than in software, however the license disallows finetuning and any redistribution of the model. This means that reuploading it is not allowed.
For more information, please refer to #4
Can we use this model for commercial purposes by finetuning the model ?
Hello everyone!
The license has been changed to MIT.
Regards,
Gustavo.