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Authors begin suing over training data
Comedian Sarah Silverman and novelists Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden filed separate suits in California, seeking class-action status against both companies.
Courts & copyright
Stanford's Alpaca fine-tunes LLaMA for a few hundred dollars
Instruction-following behaviour was reproduced for under $600 total by fine-tuning Meta's 7B LLaMA on GPT-3.5-generated examples; the public demo was pulled within days.
Open weights & ecosystem · Ideas & essays
Georgi Gerganov releases llama.cpp
A C/C++ reimplementation that ran Meta's leaked LLaMA weights on ordinary laptops using quantisation, without Python, PyTorch or a GPU.
Open weights & ecosystem · Compute & infrastructure
Meta releases LLaMA to researchers, and it leaks within a week
Meta shared a competitive foundation model with approved researchers; the weights appeared on BitTorrent days later and an open ecosystem formed around them.
Open weights & ecosystem · Models & capabilities
In the commentary
Pieces from around the web that discuss llama. External links.
- 7 January 2026 · Nathan Lambert · Interconnects8 plots that explain the state of open models
- 9 April 2025 · Zvi Mowshowitz · Don't Worry About the VaseLlama Does Not Look Good 4 Anything
- 7 April 2025 · Nathan Lambert · InterconnectsLlama 4: Did Meta just push the panic button?
- 25 September 2024 · Nathan Lambert · InterconnectsLlama 3.2 Vision and Molmo: Foundations for the multimodal open-source ecosystem
- 31 July 2024 · Nathan Lambert · InterconnectsGPT-4o-mini changed ChatBotArena
- 24 July 2024 · Dean W. Ball · HyperdimensionalLlama 3.1 and the "Path Forward"
- 24 July 2024 · Zvi Mowshowitz · Don't Worry About the VaseLlama Llama-3-405B?
- 23 July 2024 · Nathan Lambert · InterconnectsLlama 3.1 405B, Meta’s AI strategy, and the new, open frontier model ecosystem