End of an era: researcher deletes OPT weights during GPU server spring cleaning
andrew_n_carr · x · 2026-10-13
Researcher Andrew Carr did some spring cleaning on his personal GPU server and finally deleted his OPT weights, telling OPT's author Susan Zhang it's "end of an era." OPT was Meta's 2022 open LLM whose brief leak episode shook the community; its weights now being discarded by researchers carries a certain symbolic weight of its own.
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