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Choosing an open LLM for enterprise in 2024 is no longer just Llama 2: Mistral, Mixtral, Qwen, Yi, DeepSeek, and Phi-2 all compete with different licences and sizes. The criteria that actually decide are commercial licence, available hardware, language support, and your own evaluation on real use cases, not just the trendy benchmark.
On 10 August 2023, HashiCorp changed Terraform from MPL 2.0 to Business Source License v1.1, which prohibits building competing products. For 95% of teams using Terraform internally, the practical impact is nil. Teams building SaaS products on top of Terraform need to review their situation or consider OpenTofu.
OpenTofu is the community fork of Terraform, born in 2023 after HashiCorp switched to the Business Source License. With full file compatibility and Linux Foundation governance, it is the legally safe alternative for organisations with strict open-source policies or for those building products on Terraform.
Meta released LLaMA 2 on July 18, 2023 with a royalty-free commercial licence, in three sizes (7B, 13B, 70B parameters). The 70B model matches or beats GPT-3.5 on standard benchmarks. For 99.9% of organisations the licence allows download, modification, and production use with full data privacy and no fine-tuning restrictions.
