Pre-training LLMs: One Model To Rule Them All? with Talfan Evans, DeepMind

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Talfan Evans is a research engineer at DeepMind, where he focuses on data curation and foundational research for pre-training LLMs and multimodal models like Gemini. I ask Talfan:

Will one model rule them all?
What does "high quality data" actually mean in the context of LLM training?
Is language model pre-training becoming commoditized?
Are companies like Google and OpenAI keeping their AI secrets to themselves?
Does the startup or open source community stand a chance next to the giants?

Also check out Talfan's latest paper at DeepMind, Bad Students Make Good Teachers.

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