I believe the EU has (or is drafting) laws about LLMs of a certain size which this release would not comply with.

https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/high-level-summary/

There's many places where the model might be used which could count as high-risk scenarios and require lots of controls. Also, we have:

  GPAI models present systemic risks when the cumulative amount of compute used for its training is greater than 10^25 floating point operations (FLOPs). Providers must notify the Commission if their model meets this criterion within 2 weeks. The provider may present arguments that, despite meeting the criteria, their model does not present systemic risks. The Commission may decide on its own, or via a qualified alert from the scientific panel of independent experts, that a model has high impact capabilities, rendering it systemic.

  In addition to the four obligations above, providers of GPAI models with systemic risk must also:

  - Perform model evaluations, including conducting and documenting adversarial testing to identify and mitigate systemic risk.
  - Assess and mitigate possible systemic risks, including their sources.
  - Track, document and report serious incidents and possible corrective measures to the AI Office and relevant national competent authorities without undue delay.
  - Ensure an adequate level of cybersecurity protection."

They may not want to meet these requirements.

Good on the chinese for ignoring the insanity in the EU and just releasing this, for us, the public with no strings attached.

> 10^25 floating point operations (FLOPs)

Is there a reason this number was chosen?

Also existing privacy laws (GDPR) and AI Act (foundational models have to disclose and document their training data)

I imagine they trained on data that is protected by privacy laws, similar to Meta.