[MichaelZuo]

Your second link has the immediate comment "Gpt3 includes dense attention layers that are n^2". So it's not at all unlikely.

[space_fountain]

GPT3 was released 3 years ago now. There have been major advancements in scaling attention so it would be strange if they didn't use some of them

[MichaelZuo]

It doesn't matter how many major advancements they made in scaling, as long as one component is O(n^2) or higher.

[cubefox]

It's not the scale itself, it's the scaling architecture.

[MichaelZuo]

The same applies.