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Leave it to HN to be negative about a team going from nothing to training a model competitive with a world class lab like Meta in 4 months.
by machdiamonds 3y ago
Leave it to HN to be negative about a team going from nothing to training a model competitive with a world class lab like Meta in 4 months.
- Vicinity9635 3y ago[flagged]
- FireInsight 3y agoWe're in red-scare times, aren't we? "Communists control the media", yeah right, communist millionaires of course. There's nothing leftist about corporations adopting the language of progressivism and trying to keep a favorable image. That's just what modern capitalism is. And it's not like Musk bought Twitter to make it free for all, but for it to be actively harboring anti-progressives and hostility towards progressive ideas.
- Vicinity9635 3y ago[dead]
- schleck8 3y agoI'm the supreme leader of said auth left, you will be arrested in a few minutes
- yawnr 3y agoYikes what a sentence
- Havoc 3y agoYou don’t get points for showing up late to a race
- vntok 3y agoHave you ever heard of Google Chrome? It showed up pretty late to the browser race. In the tech world, just like in most other sectors, you don't get points for showing up early to a race; you get them for crossing the finish line, sometimes years after the race began.
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- Kye 3y agoGoogle Chrome showed up late, but paid off the crowd and judges to win.
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- vntok 3y agoYeah, tough luck. Pretty much none of the companies that showed up first in the tech industry are still amongst the top 5-10 players today. On the contrary, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, WhatsApp, Skype, Netflix and pretty much every single tech giant that enjoys a quasi monopoly over their market today, they all arrived pretty late. Not second to market, mind you. Waay late.
- cromwellian 3y ago? Chrome shipped with a fast JS JIT, simplified UI, per-process isolation. Acting like you had to pay someone to perceive a superior user benefit to Firefox, which at the time would crash and you'd like all your tabs, is ridiculously ahistorical.
- Kye 3y agoYou must have forgotten how they paid to put it in just about every installer, selected by default, and pushed it aggressively in every Google property. They may not have had to, but they used their monopoly position to cut the air off to every other browser. That's not ahistorical even if everyone seems to have forgotten. We'll never know how things might have gone without that monopoly abuse. Maybe Mozilla would have had enough developers and testers to fix things without abandoning what made Firefox unique.
- bdhcuidbebe 3y agoLiterally able to replicate in 5 minutes with a chatgpt api key and a prompt. Why impressed?
- vntok 3y agoSo you can replicate the performance by... piggybacking on the current leader's infrastructure and APIs? That really isn't impressive at all compared to replicating said infrastructure. Why would you even mention it?
- Zetobal 3y agoIf you don't give it 8-shots (lol) it performs like ass.
- raydev 3y agoThere is a lot of prior, better (and open source) work at this point, so "going from nothing to [Grok.ai]" in 4 months doesn't mean much. The training process is hardly a mystery in 2023, now it just requires money and compute and human hours. I applaud them for getting it out the door, though.
- Kye 3y agoThey didn't start from nothing. All the foundational work and numerous open source implementations are out there for anyone to study.
- chankstein38 3y agoPlus they had Elon's wallet backing them... If I had billions of dollars in the bank and pulled up to a race in my 2002 Honda Accord and, after someone agreed to a race, quickly bought a Bugatti Chiron and paid to have it shipped to me before the race started, I wouldn't expect anyone would be impressed with my racing ability.
- Vicinity9635 3y ago[dead]
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- LightBug1 3y agoPlease, this is the 2023 version of "view source / copy-paste" and add a little nonsense from some bored developers.