[1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models
Andrej Karpathy・2 minutes read
Large language models like Llama 270b are powerful tools with varying parameters, openly available for personal use. These models involve a complex training process with stages like pre-training and fine-tuning to create assistant models for generating text and answering questions efficiently.
Insights
- Large language models like Llama 270b are comprised of two files, with the 70 billion parameter model being the largest and most potent, accessible for personal use due to openly available architecture and weights.
- Training these models involves compressing a significant portion of the internet, costing around $2 million, and generating text through predicting subsequent words, with assistant models obtained through pre-training and fine-tuning stages, aiming to create personalized Q&A responses and improving model accuracy.