LoRA

also referred to as: lora's

5 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Aug 31, 2023 by Eugene Cheah · said 21 times in 10 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Aug 31, 2023 neutral
Insight
Cheah: LoRA Cannot Teach LLMs New Languages or Novel Concepts
“Laura cannot teach new language. It cannot it's sometimes may struggle to teach new techniques or new, new concepts. It does well into adding and refining existing contact knowledge.”
Eugene Cheah Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 1:50:20 RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
Jan 2, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Doshi: LoRA Stable Diffusion Creator Simu Works With Playground AI
“The person that brought Laura's to stable diffusion actually works with us on, on some projects. His name is Simu”
Suhail Doshi Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 57:12 The AI-First Graphics Editor - with Suhail Doshi of Playground AI
Jul 29, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Eugene Cheah: LoRAs will arrive before full Llama 3.1 405B fine-tunes
“I suspect we are going to see more LoRa's first before we get full fine-tuned.”
Eugene Cheah Jul 29, 2024 ▶ 47:54 [LLM Paper Club] Llama 3.1 Paper: The Llama Family of Models
Oct 16, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Corbitt: No downside to using LoRAs for task-specific model customization
“For the types of training runs that we're interested in, where it's like, hey, I'm doing a relatively lightweight customization of an existing model for a specific task, there's really no downside to using Allura, and there's a lot of, like, upsides from an, l…”
Kyle Corbitt Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 10:34 Why RL Won — Kyle Corbitt, OpenPipe (acq. CoreWeave)
May 24, 2026 bearish
Insight
Updating mobile base models breaks per-app LoRAs, creating severe maintenance hurdles
“From a developer point of view, I think it will be very tricky because one, you don't want to have 20 different base models in the phone of the users. The battery will just die. You also don't want to have to update 20 LoRa every time you update the base model…”
Omar Sanseviero May 24, 2026 ▶ 15:56 ⚡️ Google's Open AI Strategy — Omar Sanseviero, Google DeepMind
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