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Comment by GaggiX | Hacker News Reader

>try 10 trillion or 100 trillion tokens

Computation is not free and data is not infinite.

You could've said the same to OpenAI when they were scaling GPT from 1 billion to 175 billion parameters. We're all grateful they didn't follow that line of thought.

But Stability does have access to a pretty big cluster, so it's not paying cloud compute (I assume), so cost will be less, and data of course is not infinite...never stated that.

But considering 3.7 million videos are uploaded to youtube everyday, 2 million scientific articles published every year, yada yada...that argument falls apart.

At the very least implement spiral development... 1 trillion... 3 trillion... (oh it seems to be getting WAY better! There seems to be a STEP CHANGE!)... 5 trillion... (holy shit this really works, lets keep going)

The training corpus is the problem. An extra trillion tokens is (ballpark) an extra million KJV bibles worth of text formatted for ingestion. And you probably picked all of the low hanging fruit in terms of quality prior vetting and being in a standard format for ingestion in your first trillion tokens of training data.

There’s a difference between telling someone they’re wasting their time with their current project, and asking them why they didn’t spend 6x - 60x as much budget on an already expensive project.

They're loaded, and we know scaling works, they'd massively benefit... both in marketing and profit.

Although it is open source to be fair.

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