Parameter scaling race is over; frontier labs plateauing at 10T parameters

Parameter scaling race is over; frontier labs plateauing at 10T parameters | the parameter scaling race seems to be over...We should be in the hundreds of trillions or higher of parameters right now. That hasn't happened. We've plateaued out in terms of the number of parameters and frontier models

the parameter scaling race seems to be over...We should be in the hundreds of trillions or higher of parameters right now. That hasn't happened. We've plateaued out in terms of the number of parameters and frontier models

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