Re:In a first, Google has released data on how much energy a...
by logicprog on Saturday August 23, 2025 @07:43AM
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Mixture of Experts. Llama 3.1 405B is a dense model, so to evaluate the next token, the context has to go through literally every parameter in its neural network. Whereas with mixture of experts, it's usually like a sixth to a tenth or even less of the neural network parameters that actually get evaluated for every token. Also, they don't use GPT-4 or 4.5 anymore iirc, which may have been dense (and that's why they were so expensive), 4.1 and 4o are much different models.
GPT-4 is over a trillion parameters. Is there any reason to think they have 2.5x more parameters but somehow use 6x less energy?