Fu: AI21's Jamba Is the State of the Art Non-Transformer Model
Dan Fu · 2024 in Post-Transformer Architectures: State Space Models, RWKV [Latent Space LIVE! @ NeurIPS 2024] · Dec 24, 2024 · at 16:50
Dan Fu reviews the leading post-transformer implementations at NeurIPS 2024.
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“AI-II trained this hybrid MOE called Jamba that, that, that seems, that is currently the state of the art for these non-transformer architectures.”
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