[HN Gopher] EleutherAI One Year Retrospective ___________________________________________________________________ EleutherAI One Year Retrospective Author : tehsauce Score : 70 points Date : 2021-07-08 18:59 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (blog.eleuther.ai) (TXT) w3m dump (blog.eleuther.ai) | nynx wrote: | Sounds like a fun place to hang out! | Rebelgecko wrote: | Can anyone elaborate on Bruder muss loss? | siekmanj wrote: | It's a German phrase which colloquially translated means 'Gotta | go bro' | robbedpeter wrote: | https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pedalo In german, "Brother must | go!" | albertgoeswoof wrote: | So MS invested $1bn into OpenAI. Meanwhile, these volunteers | built an OSS version of OpenAI's flagship product in their spare | time. | | Can you imagine if we could redirect funds to actual OSS | developers at scale? | Tenoke wrote: | What they did is cool and impressive but that's an extreme | oversimplification. | | Building a small version of something that already exits, has | code you can look at (gpt2), paper etc. is going to always be | cheaper and easier even if we ignore that OpenAI work on and | publish more than gpt. This is before even mentioning that they | have an enormous amount of free compute from Google (and | others) while Azure credits is a lot of what the 1bn investment | to OA included. | Eridrus wrote: | This is clearly true, but this is also far cheaper that we | could get this capability if we were to really staff a | project. | | If there are volunteers who are capable of and want to | contribute to the information commons and are merely | constrained by compute, we should clearly help them. | king_magic wrote: | This was an entertaining read. | syntaxing wrote: | Where does the EleutherAI computing resource and the money | required to pay for it come from? | | Edit: I think they got a grant from the TPU Research org | | [1] https://sites.research.google/trc/ | Tenoke wrote: | As it says in the post the free compute from Google's TFRC and | also a collaboration with Coreweave who pledged more. | syntaxing wrote: | Missed it when I was skimming the article but saw a reference | to them in the repo | Tenoke wrote: | Also for what is worth TFRC is not really a grant grant. | You just sign up and if they like you they give you access. | ma2rten wrote: | I think they do ask you what you are planning to use the | resources for, what your qualifications are and make a | decision to allocate and how many tpus based on that. | Tenoke wrote: | Yes, they do but it's not really a grant and they don't | really follow up on what you do unless you contact them | yourself. You just fill a form and if you get accepted | get an email later with access. At least that's how it | was when I got accepted but things might've changed since | last I've heard. | sillysaurusx wrote: | Apply to TRC! You personally can get the same computing | resources. https://blog.gpt4.org/jaxtpu | | For some reason, everyone is reluctant to apply. I wrote that | to dispel some of the hesitation. Wanting to play with TPUs is | a fine reason to join. | | Some reasons why TRC is awesome: | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27728225 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-07-08 23:00 UTC)