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• silencioso@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not really if you have to divide resources between two. Computing necessary for training this models is not cheap and there is an obvious opportunity cost here.

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  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    MS has more than enough cash and resources to back two horses.

    Computing necessary for training this models is not cheap and there is an obvious opportunity cost here.

    This also gives them the luxury of trying a different approach.

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