License
Hi,
Thanks for releasing EXAONE! I noticed in your blog post you mentioned that the model was open sourced. Are there any plans to switch to an open source (OSI-approved) license?
Thanks!
This could be especially beneficial for the smaller model - you could keep your largest model w/ a restrictive license, but just making the tiny one Apache 2.0 (or even just a more permissive commercial license) would more than pay itself back in terms of publicity and adoption. The issue w/ a lot of awesome small models (like this one) is that they get released, they have a strange license, they never get used, and then they fall by the wayside. If you look at models by smaller teams that do really well - like Olmo, Mistral, MiniCPM, Qwen (in the beginning they were a small team haha), Yi, etc. - all of these have open source licenses.
Thank you so much for your kind words and for your interest in EXAONE. We truly appreciate your support and feedback. Currently, we have made the models available as open-weight for research purposes only. The OSI is currently under internal review. We will certainly keep you updated if there are any changes in the future, so please stay tuned!
Thank you for the prompt response! Totally understand the internal review. We will stay tuned :D!