Comment by boshalfoshal

Nerd sniping the hackernews/twitter crowd with "large scale transformer-based language model alternatives."

People don't want to believe something as unsatisfying as "Scaling up LLMs" can yield something as profound as AGI/be useful, and just hope that literally anything else can take their mindshare away, and this just happens to be the new rage. Along with clearly-not-frontier-level open source models, non-transformer based architectures, etc.