Samuel L Smith on AI

Announcing RecurrentGemma! t.co - A 2B model with open weights based on Griffin - Replaces transformer with mix of gated linear recurrences and local attention - Competitive with Gemma-2B on downstream evals - Higher throughput when sampling long sequences

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Uses concrete numbers instead of vague claims, which makes it credible and quotable.
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Short enough to read in full without expanding, which removes a step before the point lands.

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Tone: energetic, punchy
Mechanisms: Specificity
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