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Not bad for a start by the US government. A bit more than half as powerful as the 1.7 trillion parameter GPT4 model.

A bit more than half the size, it remains to be seen how powerful it is. There's clearly a non-linear relationship to model size, and it's also clear that it's hard to assess the power of these models anyway.

Ah, an important distinction to make. Good point.

GPT-4 is unlikely to be 1.7T params. This is a number floating around in the internet with no justification.

The largest US open model is Google’s Switch-C which is 1.6T and only because it is a Mixture of experts model, i.e. it is constituted of many small models working together.

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