There are other huge models like Bloom that are more general purpose, but they require greater than 24GB of ram which means multiple linked GPUs to even run them much less train them.
Thus, unlike stable diffusion, chatbots that run on common consumer GPUs are going to need some work to be competitive with commercial offerings.
It takes an additional fortune to pay humans to do RLHF (reinforcement learning from human feedback).
It takes an additional fortune to serve the model.
There are also researchers getting paid there that live in one of the most expensive hubs in the world.
"Okay guys, the API is down, you have until it's back up to talk to me about pink pigeons (or any other unpredictable topic of the referees choice you couldn't batch responses to ahead of time) to raise my confidence that you are in fact not a bot"
7 min was the third time I'd read your comment so I downvoted it.
Can't speak for anyone else but aye it's definitely because you posted the same thing thrice for me. The first version (topmost rated) of your comment doesn't seem to be downvoted