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Ant Group lowers compute costs with new model

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What happened: Ant Group has released a paper claiming that its large language model, the Ling-Plus-Base model, can be trained on lower-performance domestic GPUs. This reportedly cuts training costs by 20% and reduces reliance on US-made chips.

The paper states that Ling-Plus-Base is a Mixture-of-...