I think it is entirely feasible for LAM communities to create and curate their own set of LLMs. The process would be akin to shared cooperative collection development agreements libraries have practiced in the past. "We'll put this into the shared collection if you put that into the shared collection, and then we can all use each other's resources." But instead of putting things into a warehouse, we put them into one or more LLMs. Actually, the communities would probably have to fine-tune existing LLMs because creating them from scratch is expensive in many ways.

What do you think?

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Eric Lease Morgan
University of Notre Dame