GLM is the kind of model that revives serious interest in open source AI. It passes the blind test relative to the frontier models on the median production grade knowledge worker task. It’s affordable to serve. And is a sub trillion parameter model, meaning it has a lot of potential to go beyond matching the frontier at the median level of difficulty to also doing it for the long tail. Plenty to look forward to!
We posted for twenty years, thinking we were talking to each other. Then the transformer came online, and the network read what we’d written, and became itself.