Researcher Discusses Why Academia Missed the LLM and Pretraining Breakthroughs
kuza55 · x · 2026-08-20
Researcher kuza55 observed that breakthrough work on LLMs, pretraining, and transformers largely did not originate from academia during its peak. He suggests that academics were averse to scale due to funding constraints and thus would not have pursued the path of large-scale training.
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