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ai model efficiency improvements may make them tiny

December 13, 2024

source: x.com

by Dorian Minors

I did brain science at Cambridge. Now I'm a behaviour science professor. Read my shit.

AI model capabilities don’t just scale with size, but with efficiency. I don’t pretend to understand lots of this but I did see:

In other words, around three months, it is possible to achieve performance comparable to current state-of-the-art LLMs using a model with half the parameter size.

Assuming anything like that is true, we should see much better performance from smaller models—maybe even ones you can run on your own PC. Be nice to see the back of OpenAI et al. See also the paper.

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