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Soumith Chintala: belief

6 Mar 2024 Latent Space Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI

“If you don't have enough compute, you figure out how to make do with smaller models. But no one as of today, I think would feel like they have enough compute.”

— Soumith Chintala

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Soumith Chintala
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
6 Mar 2024
Publisher
Latent Space

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…So even the GPU rich run through the same struggles of having to decide where to allocate things. Yeah, I mean, at some point I forgot who said it, but you kind of fit your models to the amount of compute you have. If you don't have enough compute, you figure out how to make do with smaller models. But no one as of today, I think would feel like they have enough compute. I don't think I've heard any company within the AI space be like, oh yeah, like we feel like we have sufficient compute and we couldn't have done better. So that conversation, I don't think I've heard from any of my friends at other companies. Stella from Eleuther sometimes says that because she has a lot of donated compute. She's trying to put it to interesting uses, but for some reason she's decided to stop making large models.…

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