Thomas mentions below that he thinks big academic groups ought to work on single, big projects. Instead, they seem to parallelize into many small projects. In contrast, big industry groups seem to more often work on single, big projects (see, e.g., GPT-4). Why? https://
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Why Industry Scales Large AI Projects Better Than Academia
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How Tech Companies Force Users Into Premium Upgrades
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Oh, so that's how they get me to upgrade. pic.twitter.com/ePb2hHbBYP
— Yohei (@yoheinakajima) 14 mars 2023Oh, so that's how they get me to upgrade.
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Major LLM Models Released Simultaneously Today
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Does anyone know why they all decided to release their LLM models today? PaLM API, GPT-4, Claude+… By the way, #GPT4 and Claude+ are accessible on http://
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Jakub Pachocki’s Leadership Key to GPT-4 Development Success
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GPT-4 was truly a team effort from our entire company, but the overall leadership and technical vision of Jakub Pachocki for the pretraining effort was remarkable and we wouldn’t be here without it
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Competitive Landscape Emerges as New AI Industry Narrative
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I guess "competitive landscape" is a nice (and new if I'm not mistaken) addition to the narrative!
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Open Source AI Leaders to Dominate Over Closed Competitors
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Horror vacui! Others like @AiEleuther @StabilityAI @runwayml @GoogleAI @MetaAI @huggingface will take over and reap the clear benefits of open science and open source
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GPT-4 Release Disappoints: Missing Multimodal Generation
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I’m not gonna lie, the GPT4 just released is quite less exciting than what I was expecting No multimodale generations and a tech report carefully emptied of any useful info on the model/training/compute I guess we’re getting spoiled in today’s AI world
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GPT-4 Launch: OpenAI’s Advanced AI Model Now Available
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GPT-4 is here! Our best model so far with strong steerability and safety improvement. API waitlist available. https://
openai.com/research/gpt-4 A true team effort – with extraordinary talents, strong belief & steady execution, we make things happen. So proud to be part of it. Have fun!