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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Tibert@jlai.lu to c/technology@lemmy.world

The article is about Kyutai, a French AI lab with an objective to compete with chatgpt and others with full open source (research papers, models, and training data).

They are aiming to also include the capability to use sound, image, etc... (according to this article (French) https://www.clubic.com/actualite-509350-intelligence-artificielle-xavier-niel-free-et-l-ancien-pdg-de-google-lancent-kyutai-un-concurrent-europeen-a-openai.html )

The post article also talks about some French context.

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[-] Mahlzeit@feddit.de 110 points 11 months ago

Ideally, they wouldn't be paying salaries? What?

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The context is that LLMs need a big up front capital expenditure to get started, because of the processor time to train these giant neural networks. This is a huge barrier to the development of a fully open source LLM. Once such a foundation model is available, building on top of it is relatively cheaper; one can then envision an explosion of open source models targeting specific applications, which would be amazing.

So if the bulk of this €300M could go into training, it would go a long way to plugging the gap. But in reality, a lot of that sum is going to be dissipated into other expenses, so there's going to be a lot less than €300M for actual training.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Methinks cyd might be a libertarian 😄

[-] 5BC2E7@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

?? Do you know people with enough time qualifications and money that are willing to work for free? I haven’t.

[-] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

I know a few people on a certain site that host a kind of reddit alternative in their free time.

[-] 5BC2E7@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago
[-] puppy@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I think you just replied to one.

[-] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

No not me lol, I'm a glorified moderator. The guys I'm talking about are the actual hosts of this website.

[-] 5BC2E7@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I don’t know him but I do know that people have been banned for criticizing Lemmy administration wrt potential monetization.

I don’t want to be banned so I will not comment further on the admin.

I don’t deny that there are software engineers that would work for free but they are not common.

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