Now it turns out they were just bullshitting at Google.
I don't think Google was bullshitting when they wrote, documented and released Tensorflow, BERT and flan-t5 to the public. Their failure to beat OpenAI in a money-pissing competition really doesn't feel like it reflects on their capability (or intentions) as a company. It certainly doesn't feel like they were "bullshitting" anyone.
> The innovation is largely happening within the megacorps anyway
That was the part I was replying to. Whichever megacorp this is, it’s not Google.
The flan quantizations are also still pretty close to SOTA for text transformers. Their quality-to-size ratio is much better than a 7b Llama finetune, and it appears to be what Apple based their new autocorrect off of.
This proposal is the US doing that bicycle/stick meme, it will backfire spectacularly.