Ex-Google Brain Researcher: Key Algorithmic Breakthroughs Came Under 1e20 FLOPs
A former Google Brain researcher says many innovations now deemed 'algorithmic advances' in frontier models were discovered with under 1e20 FLOPs, arguing good ideas matter more than raw compute.
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