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[-] obbeel@mander.xyz 1 points 6 hours ago

Training LLMs is very costly, and open-weights aren't open-source. For example, there are some LLMs in Brazil, but there is a notable case for a brazilian student on the University of Dusseldorf that banded together with two other students of non-brazilian origin to make a brazilian LLM. 4B model. They used Google to train the LLM, I think, because any training on low VRAM won't work. It took many days and over $3000 dollars. The name is Tucano.

I know it looks cheap because there are many, but many country initiatives are eager on AI technology. It's costly.

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