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Was told it takes only about 30K GPUs to pre train a mega model. Inference compute is the real monster. But then most likely they’ll just serve distilled smaller models.
Chinese AI labs seem confident they have the compute needed to pre-train 5-10 trillion parameter models.
Someway, somehow compute does not seem to be such a major bottleneck, at least when it comes to reaching these levels of model size.