This seems like the equivalent of a university designing an ICE car...
What does anyone get out of this when we have open weight models already ?
Are they going to do very innovative AI research that companies wouldn't dare try/fund? Seems unlikely ..
Is it a moonshot huge project that no single company could fund..? Not that either
If it's just a little fun to train the next generation of LLM researchers.. Then you might as well just make a small scale toy instead of using up a super computer center
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