<story><title>Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents</title><url>https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/pull/73/files</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ot</author><text>In case it&amp;#x27;s not clear what&amp;#x27;s happening here (and from the comments it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like it is), someone (not Meta) leaked the models and had the brilliant idea of advertising the magnet link through a GitHub pull request. The part about saving bandwidth is a joke. Meta employees may have not noticed or are still figuring out how to react, so the PR is still up.&lt;p&gt;(Disclaimer: I work at Meta, but have no relationship with the team that owns the models and have no internal information on this)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>espadrine</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Meta employees may have not noticed or are still figuring out how to react&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Given that the cat is out of the bag, if I were them, I would say that it is now publicly downloadable under the terms listed in the form. It is great PR, which if this was unintentional, is a positive outcome out of a bad situation.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents</title><url>https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/pull/73/files</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ot</author><text>In case it&amp;#x27;s not clear what&amp;#x27;s happening here (and from the comments it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like it is), someone (not Meta) leaked the models and had the brilliant idea of advertising the magnet link through a GitHub pull request. The part about saving bandwidth is a joke. Meta employees may have not noticed or are still figuring out how to react, so the PR is still up.&lt;p&gt;(Disclaimer: I work at Meta, but have no relationship with the team that owns the models and have no internal information on this)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IanCal</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not even clear someone has leaked the models. A random person has put a download link on a PR, it could be anything.</text></comment>