I'll venture to say the majority of these "open access models" are meant to serve as advertisements of capabilities (either of hardware, research, or techniques) and nothing more. MPT being one of the most obvious example.
Many don't offer any information, some do offer information but provide no new techniques and just threw a bunch of compute and some data to make a sub-par model that shows up on a specific leaderboard.
Everyone is trying to save a card up their sleeve so they can sell it. And showing up on scoreboards is a great advertisement.
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I'll venture to say the majority of these "open access models" are meant to serve as advertisements of capabilities (either of hardware, research, or techniques) and nothing more. MPT being one of the most obvious example.
Many don't offer any information, some do offer information but provide no new techniques and just threw a bunch of compute and some data to make a sub-par model that shows up on a specific leaderboard.
Everyone is trying to save a card up their sleeve so they can sell it. And showing up on scoreboards is a great advertisement.