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How do they pay for their compute?
by eachro 4y ago
How do they pay for their compute?
- ronsor 4y agoDonations and sponsors such as Stability AI, based on the announcement in their Discord server
- mperham 4y agoWith money. A non-profit can still have plenty of revenue.
- stellaathena 4y agoWe have a number of donors including Hugging Face, Stability AI, Nat Friedman, Lambda Labs, and Canva that make our work possible. We also have some orgs that provide sponsorship for computing resources specifically: Stability AI, CoreWeave, and Google Research.
- ftxbro 4y agoare you bottlenecked by engineering
- stellaathena 4y agoYes, we are currently bottlenecked primarily by engineering manpower.
- mcbits 4y agoHave you reached the point of dogfooding your own models to augment work that would normally be considered engineering? If so, I wonder about the implications of black-box models helping to study and develop solutions for interpretability. It gives me "reflections on trusting trust" vibes.
- ENGNR 4y agoI can only imagine the more successful that activity was, the worse the bottleneck would become
- Taek 4y agoNot access to GPUs for training? What would it take to get a 65B model out of eleuther?
- stellaathena 4y agoA cr q
- stellaathena 4y agoOur policy is to not comment on timelines for future models, as our ability to meet those timelines is heavily influenced by factors outside of our control and we don’t want to lead people on.