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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

“There was OPT before, which I think I'm also very proud of because we bridged the gap in understanding of how complex it is to train these models to the world.”

— Soumith Chintala

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Soumith Chintala
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belief
Recorded
6 Mar 2024
Publisher
Latent Space

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…Got it. Let's touch a little bit on just Meta AI and you know, stuff that's going on there. Maybe, I don't know how deeply you're personally involved in it, but you're our first guest with Meta AI, which is really fantastic. And Llama 1 was, you know, you are such a believer in open source. Llama 1 was more or less the real breakthrough in open source AI. The most interesting thing for us covering on this, in this podcast was the death of Chinchilla, as people say. Any interesting insights there around the scaling models for open source models or smaller models or whatever that design decision was when you guys were doing it? So Llama 1 was Guillaume Lample and team. There was OPT before, which I think I'm also very proud of because we bridged the gap in understanding of how complex it is to train these models to the world. Like until then, no one really in gory detail published. The logs.…

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