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LLMs have tons of parameters, but what is a parameter?

Large language models are routinely described in terms of their size, with figures like 7 billion or 70 billion parameters tossed around as shorthand for power. Yet for anyone outside the machine ...
MIT Technology Review

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?

They’re the mysterious numbers that make your favorite AI models tick. What are they and what do they do? MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of ...
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DeepSeek looks to offload simple LLM tasks to save billions of parameters

Detailed in a recently published technical paper, the Chinese startup’s Engram concept offloads static knowledge (simple information lookups) from the LLM's primary memory to host memory (CPU RAM) in ...