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> Sure, they have huge GPU clusters

That's a really, really big "sure."

Almost every trick to run a LLM at OpenAI's scale is a trade secret and may not be easily understood by mere mortals anyways (e.g. bare-metal CUDA optimizations)



Trade secret?

With all the staff poaching the trade secrets may have now leaked?


That's half the reason tech companies poach.


It's the entire reason.

It's also the reason John Carmack got sued by zenimax when he went to oculus.


Trade secrets also exist to hide faults and blemishes.




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