Appeal for Access
Hello:
I am an information security professional who is moonlighting as an AI researcher because I find it interesting. I have been working mainly on getting large models running on distributed low powered hardware clusters. I have had some success, getting the Llama 2 70B running with full context on an 8 node raspberry pi array! It was extremely slow, but it worked! I'm currently contributing to several edge AI open source projects and am looking to try to stay sharp enough I can start integrating parts of it into my employment.
I'm looking to check out the new 3.3 Llama 70B model and was denied. I have been approved for all previous models, and in fact my hugging face repository still has access to them. I have no idea why, I answered the questions entirely honestly.
Is there new criteria for access to this model? Is there anything I can do to reapply? I'm very much a real person, who is doing very fun research, which might someday be useful. I was looking to grab the Llama 3.3 70B model to start working with it in preparation for the delivery of several Jetson Orion Nano Super Dev kit's I'm looking to string together.
This feels horrid. I had finally gotten enough of a break in my work I could check out the new model and my access request gets instantly denied. I was very excited, now I'm very sad.
Is there anything I can do here?