Why “models” is being discussed
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Having bit the bullet, I found OAI's models actually quite helpful and most of their offering half-decent. But their whole German website was incredibly concerning and the only…
by DeepSeaTortoise · Oct 31, 2026
Yeah, the excuses courts come up with to allow code are becoming SO absurd they're kind of funny. For example: https://www.courthousenews.com/coders-lose-appeal-i…
by spwa4 · Oct 31, 2026
I understand your desire to have smaller models that are SOTA, but it may be more difficult than you realize. Think of it this way, a 100m model is like an infant, in fact we ca…
by kalenkilgore · Oct 31, 2026
Right. Our food staples, and especially barley, wheat, rice, and potatoes all produce more calories per acre at higher CO2 concentrations. That's because RuBisCO is a terrible e…
by quotemstr · Oct 31, 2026
Theyre already here. Theyre slower, but if you have 128GB And watts+time, you can so it. Imvestors should be better. We dont need new models to do this, its now the hardware car…
by cyanydeez · Oct 31, 2026
Most people who don’t want to do the things you listed can/will use the big, cheap services, sure. But do you really believe that people who want to produce ‘free’ copies o…
by no-name-here · Oct 31, 2026
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A model is an informative representation of an object, person, or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin modulus, 'a measure'. Read more on Wikipedia