> official .. told an audience at a military AI conference in Tel Aviv So not some journalistic investigative scoop. Its PR ! > building the LLM “focused only

> official .. told an audience at a military AI conference in Tel Aviv So not some journalistic investigative scoop. Its PR ! > building the LLM “focused only on the dialects that hate us”. Well duh.. > “We had no clue how to train a foundation model, Immediately followed by typical MIC over spending instead of fine-tuning > training data eventually consisted of approximately 100bn words So closer to gpt3 than any recent sota models > existing .. Arabic models using standard written Arabic.. rather than spoken Arabic I think this is the only ah-ha item in the paper.