Simon Willison’s Weblog

31st January 2023

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TIL Calculating embeddings with gtr-t5-large in Python — I've long wanted to run some kind of large language model on my own computer. Now that I have a M2 MacBook Pro I'm even more keen to find interesting ways to keep all of those CPU cores busy.

Posted 31st January 2023 at 10:54 pm

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