Small language models are taking center stage
Akash: $300 Million Incentives w/Greg Osuri | CEO of Overclock Labs,Founder & Akash Network (Bare Metal Podcast)
“It’s not how advanced or how new a model that determines the quality, it’s really how you train it. So SLMs are taking a center stage now… you can deploy an SLM and train an SLM on Akash.” — 00:28:02
Context: Arguing small, task-specific models beat LLMs on specific tasks and fit Akash’s no-long-contract model; also claims ChatGPT was getting worse at coding.