for context Yi Tay was Tech Lead on Google PaLM, UL2, Flan, Bard, etc and now is cofoudner at Reka (which has shipped some v interesting small multimodal models that have featured on here). I prompted him for this post as an ex-Googler now training LLMs as an independent startup https://twitter.com/YiTayML/status/1765105066263052718
(update: i submitted this yesterday and it didnt get traction, i guess @dang must’ve merged the old submission in here. you really didnt have to, but its a nice gesture. thanks dang!!)
aw thank you for listening. some weeks its very much a labor of love lol.
no events planned near term but come to the big shindig in june https://ti.to/software-3/ai-engineer-worlds-fair . last year's summit was the first time i really understood how much of a reach we have and how many good AI people we've managed to gather as friends.
our conversation was recorded here https://sub.thursdai.news/p/thursdai-feb-15-2024-openai-chan...