Yep, Composer 2 started from an open-source base! We will do full pretraining in the future.
Only ~1/4 of the compute spent on the final model came from the base, the rest is from our training. This is why evals are very different.
And yes, we are following the license through our inference partner terms.

Lee Robinson (@leerob) on X
Yep, Composer 2 started from an open-source base! We will do full pretraining in the future. Only ~1/4 of the compute spent on the final model came from the base, the rest is from our training. This is why evals are very different. And yes, we are following the license through