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Can Large Language Models Be Democratized?
The costs of training, configuring, and running large language models remain prohibitive and are likely to grow in the future.
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Meta's Open Pretrained Transformer (OPT-175B) is the latest entrant in the large language model (LLM) arms race triggered by OpenAI's GPT-3. What makes OPT-175B unique is Meta's apparent commitment to "openness." In a post published on the Meta AI blog, the company described its release as, "Democratizing access to large-scale language models."
While Meta's move toward transparency is commendable, the competition over LLMs has reached a point where it can no longer be democratized.
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