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Can Bloom Democratize A.I. Better than BigTech?

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Can Bloom Democratize A.I. Better than BigTech?

The largest open-access multilingual language model ever was just released.

Michael Spencer
Jul 13, 2022
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Can Bloom Democratize A.I. Better than BigTech?

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JULY 12, 2022. 3:30 PM, MONTREAL, CANADA.

Hey Guys,

The release time of the day in July, 2022 is 9:30 pm for posts.

Today I want to talk about Bloom.

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BLOOM is here. The largest open-access multilingual language model ever. Read more about it or get it at bigscience.huggingface.co/blog/bloom hf.co/bigscience/blo…
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Check out their Github here: https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/bigscience

A great introduction is by a new Substack writer on A.I., Alberto Romero.

The Algorithmic Bridge
BLOOM Is the Most Important AI Model of the Decade
You may be wondering if such a bold headline is true. The answer is yes. Let me explain why. GPT-3 came out in 2020 and established a new road the whole AI industry has been following in intention and attention since. Tech companies have repeatedly built better, larger models, one after another. But although they’ve pu…
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9 months ago · 16 likes · 2 comments · Alberto Romero

You can follow his work on the Algorithmic Bridge:

The Algorithmic Bridge

Bridging the gap between algorithms and people. A newsletter about the AI that matters to your life
By Alberto Romero

Let me give you a quote I found very interesting:

BigScience, Hugging Face, EleutherAI, and others don’t like what the big tech has done to the field. Monopolizing a technology that could — and hopefully will — benefit a lot of people down the line isn’t morally right. But they couldn’t simply ask Google or OpenAI to share their research and expect a positive response. That’s why they decided to build and fund their own — and open it freely to researchers who want to explore its wonders. State-of-the-art AI is no longer reserved for big corporations with big pockets. - Alberto Romero (Medium 12k followers).

Hugging Face’s massive popularity in 2022 is really crucial. It’s becoming a bit like the GitHub for AI models.

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