OpenAI Is Human After All; ‘Sharing Is Caring,’ Researchers Tell Model Developers

It seems like Silicon Valley’s golden child isn’t perfect after all. In a rare moment of weakness, large-language model developer OpenAI scrapped a new model, codenamed Arrakis, in mid-2023 that would have helped it run its popular chatbot ChatGPT more cheaply, my colleagues Jon Victor and Aaron Holmes reported on Tuesday.

OpenAI researchers hoped to use a machine-learning concept called sparsity to help the new model run more efficiently. To create an LLM, developers pass enormous amounts of …

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