alt Hacker News> It took them two months, to develop chip for Llama 3.1 8B. In the AI world where one week is a year, it's super slow. But in a world of custom chips, this is supposed to be insanely fast.
LLama 3.1 is like 2 years at this point. Taking two months to convert a model that only updates every 2 years is very fast
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ac29 • yesterday at 4:17 PM
2 months of design work is fast, but how much time does fabrication, packaging, testing add? And that just gets you chips, whatever products incorporate them also need to be built and tested.
It only looks that way because Llama failed. Good models like Qwen are shipping every 6 months.