The Memo - 12/Mar/2022
Hi friend,
Thanks so much for your support.
This is the second email to contributors, with some updates on AI happenings as of Mar/2022.
BigScience training tr11: a 176-billion parameter multilingual model
These guys are cool! '600 researchers from 50 countries'. Another grass-roots team like EleutherAI. You can follow the training of this model over the next month or so here:
https://twitter.com/bigsciencew?lang=en
https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/bigscience/tree/master/train/tr11-176B-ml
https://lifearchitect.ai/models/#tr11
Government of Malta launches Marija, with a nice lip/mouth avatar
Reminds me a bit of Leta, but the 'brain' is a lot smaller.