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ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure

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592 points andy99 | 1 comments | 11 Jul 25 18:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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contrarian1234 ◴[12 Jul 25 07:23 UTC] No.44540026[source]▶
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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1. herbst ◴[12 Jul 25 08:59 UTC] No.44540476[source]▶
Why do you think it's about money? IMO it's about much more than that, like independence and actual data freedom trough reproductive LLMs