Wow, 128 experts in a single model. That's a lot more than everyone else. The Snowflake team has a blog post explaining why they did that:
https://www.snowflake.com/blog/arctic-open-efficient-foundat...
But the most interesting aspect about this, for me, is that every tech company seems to be coming out with a free open model claiming to be better than the others at this thing or that thing. The number of choices is overwhelming. As of right now, Huggingface is hosting over 600,000 different pretrained open models.
Lots of money has been forever burned training or finetuning all those open models. Even more money has been forever burned training or finetuning all the models that have not been publicly released. It's like a giant bonfire, with Nvidia supplying most of the (very expensive) chopped wood.
Who's going to recoup all that investment? When? How? What's the rationale for releasing all these models to the public? Do all these tech companies know something we don't? Why are they doing this?
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EDIT: Changed "0.6 million" to "600,000," which seems clearer. Added "or finetuning".
https://www.snowflake.com/blog/arctic-open-efficient-foundat...
But the most interesting aspect about this, for me, is that every tech company seems to be coming out with a free open model claiming to be better than the others at this thing or that thing. The number of choices is overwhelming. As of right now, Huggingface is hosting over 600,000 different pretrained open models.
Lots of money has been forever burned training or finetuning all those open models. Even more money has been forever burned training or finetuning all the models that have not been publicly released. It's like a giant bonfire, with Nvidia supplying most of the (very expensive) chopped wood.
Who's going to recoup all that investment? When? How? What's the rationale for releasing all these models to the public? Do all these tech companies know something we don't? Why are they doing this?
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EDIT: Changed "0.6 million" to "600,000," which seems clearer. Added "or finetuning".