[chabons]

Interesting point. That said, the AI model space is rapidly evolving, while bitcoin's hashing problem is static. This makes it significantly more risky to make a large capital investment in dedicated HW when it's unclear if it will be able to run the next big model architecture. For instance, if this had been built + released a year ago, before SOTA models used MoE , then it would rapidly have become obselete.

[lumost]

Outside of hardware/implementation optimizations, and position embedding choice - has the SOTA transformer architecture evolved that much?

Llama-2 code appears to be about the same as gpt-2.

[andy99]

You can look at https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/llama.cpp... for examples of the different layers in a number of different models, and further down in the code for their implementations. tldr, yes they are very similar. I can see lots of value in something that can just run these models. Even if you just supported llama2 there are tons of options available.