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Re:GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free by visarga on Monday January 18, 2021 @06:09AM (#25820506)
It was probably bait and switch to hire top researchers and get initial funding. Now that OpenAI is a household name, they don't have to pretend anymore.
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Re:GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free by b3kart on Monday January 18, 2021 @06:16AM (#25820559)
I buy the former, researchers might be happier knowing their work potentially benefits all of humanity, not just a bunch of investors. But wouldn’t it be more difficult to get funding as a non-profit?
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Re:GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free by littlestymaar on Monday January 18, 2021 @07:06AM (#25820902)
It's just never going to be difficult to get funding when you have Elon Musk and Sam Altman as founders (and even more so when founders put one billion of their own money into it).
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Re:GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free by b3kart on Monday January 18, 2021 @07:25AM (#25821064)
Sure, but that's OpenAI's particular set of circumstances. Generally speaking I struggle to see investors preferring a nebulous non-profit over a for-profit with a clear path to market.
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Re:GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free by littlestymaar on Monday January 18, 2021 @07:31AM (#25821113)
Sure, but we're explicitly talking about OpenAI here.
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Re:GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free by b3kart on Monday January 18, 2021 @07:42AM (#25821207)
Of course. It's just that the comment I've been responding to suggested OpenAI going the "open"/non-profit route was to 1) get top researchers and 2) get investment. I was arguing that this doesn't seem to (generally) be a good way to get investment, but I agree with you in that in their case investment just wasn't a consideration at all.
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