H2Oai releases Fully OpenSourced GPT
Last Updated on July 17, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Dr. Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD.
Originally published on Towards AI.
h2oGPT-20B, h2oGPT-12B v1, and h2oGPT-12B v2 models have been released with Apache 2.0 license (Completely free for even commercial use case)

On April 21st, H2O.ai decided to make a splash in the Large Language Model space dominated by ChatGPT. They have released their own GPT called H2Ogpt. The differentiating factor is that this release is completely open-source under the old Apache 2.0 license, including the commercial use cases. There are three versions of the model available.
The first model is their flagship model h20GPT-20B is large enough not to fit on a GPU with 24GB VRAM. The recommended size of the VRAM for this model will be 48GB. So hard luck for all expensive cards like NVIDIA RTX 3090 and 4090 or… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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