Llama Alternatives

llama reviews and mentions

• Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jun 2025

  What are your thoughts on the origin of the LLaMA leak? It's interesting that the training data was torrented, and so was the leak. Perhaps we will never know? For the OSINT folks, not a lot to go on, or maybe a lot, depending?

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llama_(language_model)#Leak

  https://archived.moe/g/thread/91848262#p91850335

  https://github.com/meta-llama/llama/pull/73/files

• 🚀 25+ Open Source AI APIs, Models & Tools (with GitHub Repo Links)
  23 projects | dev.to | 13 Jun 2025

  Llama 2-Chat

• Getting Forked by Microsoft
  29 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2025

  preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta...

  ref: https://github.com/meta-llama/llama/blob/main/LICENSE

  But again, not open source...

• You Wouldn't Download an AI
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2025

  IANAL But, this is not true it would be a piece of the software. If there is a copyright on the app itself it would extend to the model. Even models have licenses for example LLAMA is release under this license [1]

  [1] https://github.com/meta-llama/llama/blob/main/LICENSE

• LM Studio 0.3.0
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Aug 2024

  Hello Hacker News, Yagil here- founder and original creator of LM Studio (now built by a team of 6!). I had the initial idea to build LM Studio after seeing the OG LLaMa weights ‘leak’ (https://github.com/meta-llama/llama/pull/73/files) and then later trying to run some TheBloke quants during the heady early days of ggerganov/llama.cpp. In my notes LM Studio was first “Napster for LLMs” which evolved later to “GarageBand for LLMs”.

  What LM Studio is today is a an IDE / explorer for local LLMs, with a focus on format universality (e.g. GGUF) and data portability (you can go to file explorer and edit everything). The main aim is to give you an accessible way to work with LLMs and make them useful for your purposes.

  Folks point out that the product is not open source. However I think we facilitate distribution and usage of openly available AI and empower many people to partake in it, while protecting (in my mind) the business viability of the company. LM Studio is free for personal experimentation and we ask businesses to get in touch to buy a business license.

  At the end of the day LM Studio is intended to be an easy yet powerful tool for doing things with AI without giving up personal sovereignty over your data. Our computers are super capable machines, and everything that can happen locally w/o the internet, should. The app has no telemetry whatsoever (you’re welcome to monitor network connections yourself) and it can operate offline after you download or sideload some models.

  0.3.0 is a huge release for us. We added (naïve) RAG, internationalization, UI themes, and set up foundations for major releases to come.

• Open Source AI Is the Path Forward
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jul 2024
• Mark Zuckerberg: Llama 3, $10B Models, Caesar Augustus, Bioweapons [video]
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Apr 2024

  derivative works thereof).”

  https://github.com/meta-llama/llama/blob/b8348da38fde8644ef0...

  Also even if you did use Llama for something, they could unilaterally pull the rug on you when you got 700 million years, AND anyone who thinks Meta broke their copyright loses their license. (Checking if you are still getting screwed is against the rules)

  Therefore, Zuckerberg is accountable for explicitly anticompetitive conduct, I assumed an MMA fighter would appreciate the value of competition, go figure.

• Hello OLMo: A Open LLM
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2024

  One thing I wanted to add and call attention to is the importance of licensing in open models. This is often overlooked when we blindly accept the vague branding of models as “open”, but I am noticing that many open weight models are actually using encumbered proprietary licenses rather than standard open source licenses that are OSI approved (https://opensource.org/licenses). As an example, Databricks’s DBRX model has a proprietary license that forces adherence to their highly restrictive Acceptable Use Policy by referencing a live website hosting their AUP (https://github.com/databricks/dbrx/blob/main/LICENSE), which means as they change their AUP, you may be further restricted in the future. Meta’s Llama is similar (https://github.com/meta-llama/llama/blob/main/LICENSE ). I’m not sure who can depend on these models given this flaw.

• Reaching LLaMA2 Performance with 0.1M Dollars
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Apr 2024

  It looks like Llama 2 7B took 184,320 A100-80GB GPU-hours to train[1]. This one says it used a 96×H100 GPU cluster for 2 weeks, for 32,256 hours. That's 17.5% of the number of hours, but H100s are faster than A100s [2] and FP16/bfloat16 performance is ~3x better.

  If they had tried to replicate Llama 2 identically with their hardware setup, it'd cost a little bit less than twice their MoE model.

  [1] https://github.com/meta-llama/llama/blob/main/MODEL_CARD.md#...

• DBRX: A New Open LLM
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Mar 2024

  Ironically, the LLaMA license text [1] this is lifted verbatim from is itself copyrighted [2] and doesn't grant you the permission to copy it or make changes like s/meta/dbrx/g lol.

  [1] https://github.com/meta-llama/llama/blob/main/LICENSE#L65

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