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The Essay That Started the AI Race (Kevin Roose)

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Kevin Roose's newsletter post that publishes Dario Amodei's 2017 internal OpenAI memo, "The Big Blob of Compute Hypothesis," in full for the first time, with background on how it argued for making models bigger rather than more specialized and how it shaped OpenAI's early direction. Free to read on Substack.

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