The "M" nomenclature has been around since at least BERT and T5/FLAN. It's valid to use it even if today's LLM devs are more familiar with billion-scale models.

I was so confused by many comments in this post but thanks to you I realized that some people are apparently reading it as 26B and that's why their comments make no sense.

Haha, we were trying to not be hand-wavy too much :)

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