T5 was Google's earnest bet on instruction tuning and agency — now it has fallen off
layer07_yuxi · x · 2026-10-05
Following up on his thread about the "shape" of language models, the author adds that T5 was an earnest competitor for instruction tuning and even agency, promoted by Google, but it too has fallen off the radar.
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