🚩 Report: Legal issue(s)
Nvidia,
Your recent release of the ChatQA-70B language model raises serious concerns about compliance with the licensing terms for LLaMA 3, the open source model released by Meta AI that your work appears to be derived from.
The LLaMA 3 terms of service explicitly state that any derivative models or products must be named "in a way that clearly indicates their lineage from LLaMA 3." However, the name you have chosen for your 70 billion parameter model, "ChatQA-70B," makes only a vague reference to its origins from LLaMA 3 through the "Chat" portion.
This obfuscation seems to be a direct violation of the licensing requirements Meta has put in place. By insufficiently indicating the connection to LLaMA 3 in the naming, Nvidia appears to be attempting to sidestep the open source licensing terms while benefiting from Meta's publicly released work.
This is a concerning precedent that undermines the principles of open and ethical use of open source AI models. Nvidia needs to be held accountable for this potential breach of license.
I call on Nvidia to immediately either:
- Rename your ChatQA-70B model to properly and clearly indicate its lineage from LLaMA 3 in full compliance with the terms.
- Or provide a clear, public justification for how your approach does not violate the LLaMA 3 license.
Open and transparent use of open source work is crucial for building trust in the rapidly evolving AI field. Nvidia must take responsibility and respect the licensing terms that enable open sourcing of foundational models like LLaMA 3.
I did it to uphold principles of open science collaboration. (and not the Vine.)
By Llama 3 license:
"(B) prominently display “Built with Meta Llama 3” on a related website, user interface, blogpost, about page, or product documentation. If you use the Llama Materials to create, train, fine tune, or otherwise improve an AI model, which is distributed or made available, you shall also include “Llama 3” at the beginning of any such AI model name."
So 1. Display "Built with Meta Llama 3” on page. 2. Rename model to be prefixed with "Llama 3" as stated in the Llama 3 license.
By Llama 3 license:
"(B) prominently display “Built with Meta Llama 3” on a related website, user interface, blogpost, about page, or product documentation. If you use the Llama Materials to create, train, fine tune, or otherwise improve an AI model, which is distributed or made available, you shall also include “Llama 3” at the beginning of any such AI model name."So 1. Display "Built with Meta Llama 3” on page. 2. Rename model to be prefixed with "Llama 3" as stated in the Llama 3 license.
We apologize sincerely for this issue. We just updated the model card and added Llama-3 in the model name.