@latkins: With heart.
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Martin Casado raises concerns about open source models keeping pace with expensive pre-training and blocked distillation access; @latkins replies 'With heart.'
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With heart.
martin_casado (@martin_casado): Can someone explain to me how open source models can keep up if …
- pre-training isn’t saturated
- it costs $2-4B to train a current gen model
- distillation is increasingly hard as access to the most powerful models gets blocked ..
?
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