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Ultra-Large AI Models Are Over

The end of "scale is all you need" is near

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Alberto Romero
Oct 14, 2022
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Ultra-large skyscrapers. Credit: Author via Midjourney

I don’t mean ‘over’ as in “you won’t see a new large AI model ever again” but as in “AI companies have reasons to not pursue them as a core research goal—indefinitely.”

Don’t get me wrong. This article isn’t a critique of the past years—even if I don’t buy the “scale is all you need” argument, I ackno…

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