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		2Gkashmiri on Jan 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open sourc... So how much money would it take to rebuild this foss alternative ? And distributive power like seti@home? If it can be done and I hope it does, what benefit would the original proprietary one have over this? Licensing?

jne2356 on Jan 18, 2021 | [–]

EleutherAI has already secured the resources necessary.

They get the seti@home suggestion a lot. There's a section in their FAQ that explains why it's infeasible.

https://github.com/EleutherAI/info

astrange on Jan 18, 2021 | [–]

OpenAI will execute the original one for you. If you can get an account, anyway.

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