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I don't think we're "democratizing" anything if it's just two companies who can make it and it costs billions or trillions even. That's like the polar opposite of "democratizing".

(Two companies can make it work best, tbc).

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This is a nuanced point. The way power is concentrated in few hands is bad in general for humanity. But surely it's use is not that restricted yet and people can basically do 90% of what they want with it. Maybe I should phrase this as democratization of applications? Not sure, I don't have the vocab yet to explain clearly I suppose.

Unless we use the tools from those companies to write more efficient LLMs and release them freely

Who is "we" and how are these "we" going to train foundation-scale LLMs? With what money? What compute?

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