alt Hacker NewsGPT-6 is supposed to be using a much larger base model that just finished pretraining so the "dump another chunk of all written language" approach is still going strong.
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zamadatix • today at 2:42 AM
The measure is to see if the results scale, not just the rumored attempts at building such a model, as o3 taught us.
Modern pretraining also consists of expensive human-led specialized task creation and grading loops. Synthetic generation and distillation from previous models is another input for training. I wonder how much new text contributes beyond keeping knowledge up-to-date.