> 2. They don't talk about how they get to 10M token context
Yes. I wonder if they're using a "linear RNN" type of model like Linear Attention, Mamba, RWKV, etc.
Like Transformers with standard attention, these models train efficiently in parallel, but their compute is O(N) instead of O(N²), so in theory they can be extended to much longer sequences much efficiently. They have shown a lot of promise recently at smaller model sizes.
Does anyone here have any insight or knowledge about the internals of Gemini 1.5?