Seems strange to me not to mention LLaMA once in the article then. Why tiptoe around the subject?

What exactly is the purpose of your comment? There's an entire section dedicated to open source models and how they're essential for progress.

They're presented as a hypothetical scary technology, not something that actually exists today. That framing is important to the conversation. The author is acting like there's a decision to be made. Pretending that open source models don't exist yet makes the decision artificially more difficult.

Why not examine the usage of existing models and judge them on their merits?

..did you even read the article?

Probably not wanting to give them airtime. Some kind of Streisand effect idea.

It’s intellectually dishonest in my opinion.

An inadvertent slip, the worry is being left behind in the competition.