[visarga]

Needs a big honking datacenter or billions of compute credits and safety for 6-12 months.

[tanseydavid]

Doesn't Alpaca seem to suggest that assumption is no longer true?

[visarga]

Alpaca rides on LLaMA. And LLaMA was trained on 1T tokens for a long time. The fine-tuning takes one hour with low rank adaptation. But pre-training a new model takes months.