This is awesome. Wish the USA could do stuff like this.
this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2024
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The USA can certainly do this, they have all what it takes. Public investments for such stuff will be hard to get in the next four years I guess, but there could be some private initiative?I don't know the U.S. good enough in that respect, though.
Well, we do have some private companies that are doing things like this, such as Meta with its Llama models and Google with their smaller gemma models. But I would love for there to be some publicly funded options that truly belong to all of us.
Yeah, there are many FOSS organizations in the U.S. like the Open Source Lab by the Oregon State University, the Open Source Software Institute, and many others. I guess they could do it, possibly if some join forces.
Is fraunhofer the group that used to / still do sue other organizations over video codec use? I assumed it was a company but apparently not?
The relevant patents expired a long time ago. MPEG codecs were not free and the research society did sue those who used them without acquiring licenses:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Licensing,_ownership,_and_legislation
In response to these licensing costs, ogg Vorbis was developed as a free alternative. However, Fraunhofer also co-developed AAC, which is open source (although patents still protect it and require licensing for redistribution). You may have heard of it if you're into watching movies.
Not that any of this matters, because as you can read in the excerpt above, Teuken-7B is released as both a research version and a version under the Apache 2.0 license, which permits commercial use and redistribution without any payments to the society.
A "Fraunhofer Society" refers to the overarching organization that manages a network of applied research institutes, while a "Fraunhofer Institute" is a single research unit within that network, focused on a specific area of study like materials science, healthcare, or digital technology; essentially, the Fraunhofer Society is the umbrella organization, and the Fraunhofer Institutes are the individual research centers under its governance.
They are credited with the creation of the MP3 format so maybe that's where these supposed lawsuits are coming from?