Comment by fkozlowski
1 day ago
I'm honestly surprised that they even had the inclination to attempt creating a model. I guess it's bullish that a municipal IT department had the guts to try this?
1 day ago
I'm honestly surprised that they even had the inclination to attempt creating a model. I guess it's bullish that a municipal IT department had the guts to try this?
Merges and fine tunes are within reach of individuals with some money to burn so I’m sure a muni can do it
I like the [dead] comment theory that they proposed a huge LLM training budget to the government, kept most of the money, and released a cheap merge to justify the grift.
This would be so very brazilian of them.
Source: am Huelander.
It's kinda weird to claim extraordinary results in such case though, as that brings a lot of eyes to it.
Nothing weird. The mayor wanted something brag about. That Rio, my friend.
Ah that makes sense
That's essentially Brazil's standard operating procedure. Wouldn't be surprising if that turned out to be the case.
Still, I'm actually impressed that this even happened at all. "Rio de Janeiro's homegrown LLM" is the last headline I expected to read on HN.