Comment on is K2 horizons historically significant as the first actual open-source LLM, or am I falling for hype?

joseki@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

K2 wasn’t the first.

China had CPM-1 in 2020 that was a 2.6B model.

GPT-Neo (Mar 2021) EleutherAI replicates early GPT

PanGu-α (Apr 2021) Huawei’s 200B model

WuDao 2.0 (May 2021) BAAI’s massive 1.75T sparse MoE model

GPT-J (Jun 2021) EleutherAI release 6B

Meta released OPT in 2022, BLOOM was in 2022, GLM 130B by Tsinghua/Zhipu was in 2022 etc

K2 horizon is very recent, nowhere near the first. Different labs have different computational innovations worth studying. DeepSeek is crazy efficient and doing very novel things. Mistral in France is making very compact local friendly models that are fun and easy to fine tune and merge on consumer hardware.

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