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Nussbaum: Accessibility drove GPT4All's success more than model quality

Zach Nussbaum · How Nomic AI Is Driving The Open Source Revolution · Feb 1, 2024 · at 8:28

Zach Nussbaum is an ML Engineer at Nomic AI. He reflects on why GPT4All gained widespread traction upon release.

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“I think the access part of it was the bigger part versus the actual model itself. Like the model itself at the end of the day, like there would suddenly trade a better model like the next week or the next month or something. And there's been many iterations of the model, but it was more so like the axis of it.”

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