Those apis are on 127.0.0.1, that’s a shorthand for “this local computer”. This is just different bits of the program communicating with each other.
You can see that its not going over the internet as the responses are coming back in microseconds.
No, the GPL doesnt put any restrictions on what you can do with code, just on that code and derivatives of it have to be released (source code included) under the GPL as well.
The courts have tended to find that training LLMs on data you have legal access to is fair use and transformative.
De-compiling isnt magic that lets you do whatever you want with software. It just works well for games because DRM has the insane model of “we give you the encrypted payload and the key to unlock it, but you can only unlock it in the way we want” which is fundamentally insecure. Most software isnt like that.
They don’t have to offer this to get new versions, that’s kinda the point of foss software, it’s there for anyone to download and use however they like whenever they want.
Real answer? Because train lines cut through a lot of land and every landowner along the route can hold up progress with legal objections. Flock cameras are just attached to poles and data centres are compact.
Yep, you can use it to serve models over a network, it essentially creates an api withe the same structure as openai’s ones then serves that. By default just to your machine for other programs to use, but I serve mine to my tailnet so I can use my desktop on my laptop or phone.