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Large language models have their Stable Diffusion moment

• The forthcoming release of the Stable Diffusion image generation model in August 2022 was pivotal. I wrote how Stable Diffusion is a big deal at the time.
• People could now generate images from the text on their hardware!
• More importantly, developers could mess around with the guts of what was going on
• LLaMA
  • Somewhat surprisingly, language models like GPT-3 that power tools like ChatGPT are a lot larger and more expensive to build and operate than image generation models
  • LLaMA on its own isn't much good if it's still too hard to run it on a personal laptop