Oh no, someone is profiting off of their work without proper attribution!?!?
Attribution isn't the relevant part. Lying about your lab's capabilities is.
Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model
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#12This is fascinating that it worked though. Can we just merge all the open weight models and get something better?
I imagine it'd work the same as merging all the good-tasting foods to get an even tastier one
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#13Wasn’t it already obvious given the awfully familiar parameter numbers?
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#14Re: Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model
#15One funny thing about incompetence is that they don't have the competence to know that their incompetence is straightforward to verify by a competent person.
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#16Not surprised
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#18I'm honestly surprised that they even had the inclination to attempt creating a model. I guess it's bullish that a municipal IT department had the guts to try this?
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#19One funny thing about incompetence is that they don't have the competence to know that their incompetence is straightforward to verify by a competent person.
You just described every single vibe coder...
Re: Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model
#20This is fascinating that it worked though. Can we just merge all the open weight models and get something better?
that kinda worked in llama 1/2 era, not between different models but between finetunes of the same model. the briefly legendary Mythomax was IIRC a merge of 5+ tunes, some of which were merges themselves.