open-source cousin
Can't Access GPT-3? Here's GPT-J -- Its Open-Source Cousin
The project was born in July 2020 as a quest to replicate OpenAI GPT-family models. A group of researchers and engineers decided to give OpenAI a "run for their money" and so the project began. Their ultimate goal is to replicate GPT-3-175B to "break OpenAI-Microsoft monopoly" on transformer-based language models. Since the transformer was invented in 2017, we've seen increased effort in creating powerful language models. GPT-3 is the one that became a superstar, but all over the world companies and institutions are competing to find an edge that allows them to take a breath at a hegemonic position.