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GPT-Free: Meta Releases Open Source Large Language Models OPT
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GPT-Free: Meta Releases Open Source Large Language Models OPT

Itching to get your hands on a fully trained large language model? The wait is over. Meta introduced the OPT family of transformer-based language models with nearly unfettered access to source code and trained weights.

May 11, 20222 min read
GPT-Free: Meta Releases Open Source Large Language Models OPT
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GPT-Free: Meta Releases Open Source Large Language Models OPT

Itching to get your hands on a fully trained large language model? The wait is over. Meta introduced the OPT family of transformer-based language models with nearly unfettered access to source code and trained weights.

May 11, 20222 min read
Trillions of Parameters: Are AI models with trillions of parameters the new normal?
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Trillions of Parameters: Are AI models with trillions of parameters the new normal?

The trend toward ever-larger models crossed the threshold from immense to ginormous. Google kicked off 2021 with Switch Transformer, the first published work to exceed a trillion parameters, weighing in at 1.6 trillion.

December 22, 20212 min read
Trillions of Parameters: Are AI models with trillions of parameters the new normal?
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Trillions of Parameters: Are AI models with trillions of parameters the new normal?

The trend toward ever-larger models crossed the threshold from immense to ginormous. Google kicked off 2021 with Switch Transformer, the first published work to exceed a trillion parameters, weighing in at 1.6 trillion.

December 22, 20212 min read
Who Can Afford to Train AI?: Cost of AI is Too Expensive for Many Small Companies
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Who Can Afford to Train AI?: Cost of AI is Too Expensive for Many Small Companies

The cost of training top-performing machine learning models has grown beyond the reach of smaller companies.

November 17, 20212 min read
Who Can Afford to Train AI?: Cost of AI is Too Expensive for Many Small Companies
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Who Can Afford to Train AI?: Cost of AI is Too Expensive for Many Small Companies

The cost of training top-performing machine learning models has grown beyond the reach of smaller companies.

November 17, 20212 min read
Search Goes Multimodal: Google Upgrades its Search Algorithm with Multimodal AI
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Search Goes Multimodal: Google Upgrades its Search Algorithm with Multimodal AI

Google will upgrade its search engine with a new model that tracks the relationships between words, images, and, in time, videos — the first fruit of its latest research into multimodal machine learning and multilingual language modeling.

October 13, 20212 min read
Search Goes Multimodal: Google Upgrades its Search Algorithm with Multimodal AI
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Search Goes Multimodal: Google Upgrades its Search Algorithm with Multimodal AI

Google will upgrade its search engine with a new model that tracks the relationships between words, images, and, in time, videos — the first fruit of its latest research into multimodal machine learning and multilingual language modeling.

October 13, 20212 min read
Greener Machine Learning: Here's how AI models can shrink their carbon footprints.
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Greener Machine Learning: Here's how AI models can shrink their carbon footprints.

A new study suggests tactics for machine learning engineers to cut their carbon emissions. Led by David Patterson, researchers at Google and UC Berkeley found that AI developers can shrink a model’s carbon footprint a thousand-fold by streamlining architecture...

May 5, 20211 min read
Greener Machine Learning: Here's how AI models can shrink their carbon footprints.
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Greener Machine Learning: Here's how AI models can shrink their carbon footprints.

A new study suggests tactics for machine learning engineers to cut their carbon emissions. Led by David Patterson, researchers at Google and UC Berkeley found that AI developers can shrink a model’s carbon footprint a thousand-fold by streamlining architecture...

May 5, 20211 min read
Bigger, Faster Transformers: Increasing parameters without slowing down transformers
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Bigger, Faster Transformers: Increasing parameters without slowing down transformers

Performance in language tasks rises with the size of the model — yet, as a model’s parameter count rises, so does the time it takes to render output. New work pumps up the number of parameters without slowing down the network.

February 24, 20212 min read
Bigger, Faster Transformers: Increasing parameters without slowing down transformers
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Bigger, Faster Transformers: Increasing parameters without slowing down transformers

Performance in language tasks rises with the size of the model — yet, as a model’s parameter count rises, so does the time it takes to render output. New work pumps up the number of parameters without slowing down the network.

February 24, 20212 min read

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