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Venture capital is not a good way to fund theoretical work. And Einstein didn't lie about his achievements.
by n4r9 1y ago
Venture capital is not a good way to fund theoretical work. And Einstein didn't lie about his achievements.
- mensetmanusman 1y agoThat there could be useful LLMs was theoretically argued about; essentially VC funding answered what wasn’t happening in academia.
- n4r9 1y agoIn the case of LLMs I would say that VC funding made the engineering possible. The theoretical breakthroughs were largely made in IBM and Google. OpenAI certainly made some improvements to architecture and training, but ultimately they implemented a refined version of a transformer-based LLM.