[txomon]

Out of doubt, which seems to be spreading around the internet. The LLaMa model weights weren't "leaked" AFAIK but rather explicitly given access to to researchers, isn't it right?

I know the article goes on to speak about something else, but I'm not sure why this claim that the LLaMa model weights were leaked, as in unintendenly made available is being done.

[ftxbro]

My understanding is that researchers could ask for access to weights, but then also they were leaked so that anyone could get them without asking. There is another layer, where Facebook seems to accept it on some level (I mean they don't have a choice anymore anyway); they put a cheeky comment in the open pull request instead of closing it.

[turmeric_root]

The model weights were only shared by FB to people who applied for research access. Github repos containing links to the model weights have been taken down by FB.