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Custom Foundation Models

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

CHAPTER

The Emerging Trend Around Scaling Loss for Machine Learning

There's an interesting, I don't know if it's counter trend, the emerging trend around the scaling loss for these models. So with chinchilla, they were able to train a 60 billion parameter model that actually performed better in terms of accuracy and different evaluation metrics than GPT-3 with 175 billion parameters. And similarly, even smaller models and 60 billion right with more data, you know, it performed much better. For most business use cases, you don't even need to go to the tens of billions of parameters.

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