“ChinAI #236: The LLM Implementation Gap” by Jeffrey Ding

Subtitle: Baidu's plan to bridge the implementation gap in large models. Greetings from a world where…for the rest of the college football season, this status update will be devoted to tracking the Iowa Hawkeye offense’s march to mediocrity…As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here. Please please subscribe here to support ChinAI under a Guardian/Wikipedia-style tipping model (everyone gets the same content but those who can pay support access for all AND compensation for awesome ChinAI contributors).Feature Translation: Who can get Chinese companies to use large models firstContext: Earlier this month, the Chinese government approved large language models (LLMs) from eight labs to be released to the general public. The most impressive and popular was Baidu’s Ernie Bot, which responded to more than 33 million questions within 24 hours of its release. This week, however, we focus on business-end users of large models. The central motivating question [...] --- First published: September 11th, 2023 Source: https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-236-the-llm-implementation --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.