AI models will distill down to a few million parameters as end-state

AI models will distill down to a few million parameters as end-state | at the end of the the distillation rainbow we get like the the distilled black hole of a model or a neutron star or something, the ultimate phase change where it's maybe like a few million parameters

at the end of the the distillation rainbow we get like the the distilled black hole of a model or a neutron star or something, the ultimate phase change where it's maybe like a few million parameters

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