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I like the [dead] comment theory that they proposed a huge LLM training budget to the government, kept most of the money, and released a cheap merge to justify
by axus 4mo ago
I like the [dead] comment theory that they proposed a huge LLM training budget to the government, kept most of the money, and released a cheap merge to justify the grift.
- matheusmoreira 4mo agoThat's essentially Brazil's standard operating procedure. Wouldn't be surprising if that turned out to be the case. Still, I'm actually impressed that this even happened at all. "Rio de Janeiro's homegrown LLM" is the last headline I expected to read on HN.
- seba_dos1 4mo agoIt's kinda weird to claim extraordinary results in such case though, as that brings a lot of eyes to it.
- mgambati 4mo agoNothing weird. The mayor wanted something brag about. That Rio, my friend.
- dormento 4mo agoThis would be so very brazilian of them. Source: am Huelander.
- fkozlowski 4mo agoAh that makes sense