Dev Debate: Africa Doesn't Need 100B LLMs, 500M-7B Local Models Make More Sense
saheedniyi_02 · x · 2026-08-03
Discussing the need for regional frontier models, a developer points out that training massive models like DeepSeek or Kimi doesn't make economic sense for local contexts. Instead, training smaller 500M-7B parameter models from scratch on regional data and fine-tuning them for specific problems offers a much more viable and practical approach.
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