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Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Everyone's getting really excited about the newest largest model seeing how many parameters they can cram into the training, while I feel like this is the real use case: small, highly specialised models that can run locally.

Though Firefox was the whipping-boy for RAM-hogging back in the day, and including a local model might just catapult them back to the top of that particular chart ๐Ÿ˜