13-12: Open Weights Engineering
Self-hosting open-source LLMs within private VPCs to ensure absolute data sovereignty, and the surrounding licensing constraints.
🎯 What You'll Learn
- ✓ Model VRAM allocation limits per GPU
- ✓ Evaluate Llama & Mistral commercial licenses
- ✓ Secure proprietary data in Air-Gapped networks
Taking the Model In-House
For defense contractors, hospitals, and financial institutions, sending data to OpenAI is a non-starter due to regulatory firewalls. They must self-host models entirely inside their own Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
However, "Open Weights" is not "Open Source". Meta’s Llama license carries specific commercial restrictions for massive platforms. Understanding the licensing liabilities is as important as the GPU deployment strategy.
Deploying open weights involves optimizing VLLM or TGI servers, managing massive GPU instances (A100/H100), and dealing directly with CUDA memory limitations.
The monthly AWS/GCP bill for renting A100/H100 GPU instances.
The business value unlocked by proving to customers their data never leaves your VPC network.
Calculate the TCO of bringing inferences entirely into your VPC.
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Module Syllabus
Lesson 1: Taking the Model In-House
For defense contractors, hospitals, and financial institutions, sending data to OpenAI is a non-starter due to regulatory firewalls. They must self-host models entirely inside their own Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).However, "Open Weights" is not "Open Source". Meta’s Llama license carries specific commercial restrictions for massive platforms. Understanding the licensing liabilities is as important as the GPU deployment strategy.Deploying open weights involves optimizing VLLM or TGI servers, managing massive GPU instances (A100/H100), and dealing directly with CUDA memory limitations.
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