Request to download / access Llama 3.3 rejected

I am a developer working at a US university. I first went to Llama.com to request a download and was rejected. I then came here on HF, entered the request again and got rejected again. I received emails for the rejections from Meta, with the subject “Llama 2 commercial license” and saying “Sorry, you are not eligible to access Llama 2” even though I did not request Llama 2 after the first rejection.

So I wonder, what qualifies one to download a supposedly open-source model?

Is there any model less restrictive to download?

Thanks in advance for the community support!

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You can use Mistral or Qwen 2.5, or you can try unsloth.

I recently applied for access to the Meta’s Llama 3.3 models & evals repository, but my request was rejected without any explanation. I would like to understand why my application was declined and whether I can reapply with additional details or corrections.

I did get the Meta model, but the format is different and the convert_llama_weights_to_hf method seems to be deprecated.

Thank you for your time.

Best regards,
David Trum

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The reasons for approval or rejection of manual-authenticated gated repositories are only known to the author, so I think the only way to find out is to ask Meta directly in the Discussion section below.

Thanks, John6666 for pointing me in the right direction.

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