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cubefoxyesterday at 10:25 PM3 repliesview on HN

> At 20 billion parameters per chip, you’d need just 50 accelerators to support a trillion-parameter model

I don't see any evidence that this is possible. From my understanding, the whole model needs to be on a single chip. Which rules out any popular frontier models with several trillions of parameters. Even smaller sub-frontier models have hundreds of millions of parameters, so these would be ruled out as well.


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wmfyesterday at 10:45 PM

The methods for splitting weights across multiple chips are well established. Groq/Cerebras can't hold a model on one chip either.

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octoberfranklintoday at 3:31 AM

They pipeline-parallelize across multiple chips. DeepSeek v4 Pro will be 30 chips.

IsTomyesterday at 10:40 PM

I think it's enough that a single layer fits on each chip if you can daisy-chain them with good interconnects.