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gpugregtoday at 9:15 AM2 repliesview on HN

> Some of us might be rich

I sure wish I had a few 100M of disposable income to train a frontier model.

> or in the future it could be useful when training is cheaper.

I do not think that physics will allow hardware getting that much faster. But maybe we will have different, cheaper architectures by then.


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halJordantoday at 11:47 AM

You say that but for like 2 years there was a guy on huggingface releasing quants as TheBloke. No identity no nothing except he likely had a grant or a university job that let him do it. Quants aren't the same as training but it was beyond 99% of people at the time (as you say this is)

Cant stand when you guys try and force something as impossible on the rest of us simply because you could never accomplish it.

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Muromectoday at 9:26 AM

If you would tell people at the start of 20th century how much energy we consume, they may not believe you or think it is wasteful.

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