Forget 32K of GPT4: LongNet Has a Billion Token Context
Last Updated on August 1, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Dr. Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD.
Originally published on Towards AI.
Tired of the limitation of 2048, 4096, to 32768 token-context of GPT-3 and GPT-4? Microsoft may have an answer for you (A positive take)
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On 19th July, Microsoft published a paper that is being considered as a major step forward in the development of architectures to develop large language models that could have a practically unlimited context length. Microsoft proposed and developed a transformer model that can scale to theoretically a billion tokens. This removes the major obstacle in the practical use case for the large language modes also known as “Context length restriction”.
In this article, we will walk through —
Large Language Models (LLMs)Remember me! context mattersHow to Achieve a Larger ContextCurrent Networks… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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