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im not smart enough to know the significance of this...is Griffin like MAMBA?

Yes, like RWKV and Mamba this is a new generation of models that are more like big RNNs than pure transformers we have now

and is Griffin a state space model?

No, it's a combination of RNN and Transformer.

I mean, SSMs are in fact under the hood RNNs

At the end of the day, either you carry around a hidden state, or you have a fixed window for autoregression.

You can call hidden states "RNN-like" and autoregressive windows "transformer-like", but apart from those two core paradigms I don't know of other ways to do sequence modelling.

Mamba/RWKV/Griffin are somewhere between those two extremes.

Isn't that how previous models were, before the attention is all you need paper?

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