Comment by janalsncm

The level of compression is pretty impressive when you think about it. I wrote a comment a while back which is still true (although bytes should be bits, so in that sense it’s still wrong): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39559969

Back of the envelope calculation for storing valid 4-grams (sequences of four words) is around 10 billion x 14 bits per word = 17 gb for all 10 billion. There are LLMs 100x smaller which can write coherent prose.