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Re:OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models by saynay on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @08:14AM (#31247335)
If it is like many other models, part of the reason would just be to reduce their bandwidth costs. The models can be huge, and they want to limit those who just want to download it on a whim so they don't rack up $10k+ is bandwidth charges, as has happened to many others who hosted big models out on S3 or something.
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Re:OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models by levesque on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @09:12AM (#31247837)
If only there was a way to distribute large files in a peer-to-peer manner, thus reducing the load on facebook's servers to effectively nothing. That would likely result in a torrent of bits being shared without any issues!
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