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Pasquale Minervini, University of Edinburgh NLP/ML Lecturer, defends the 2021 training of OPT-175B against contemporary criticisms

The model's public logbook documented daily training instabilities

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Pasquale Minervini@PMinervini#768inTech

@suchenzang Amazing job with OPT! Training a 175B model in 2021 must have been wild

Susan Zhang@suchenzang

guess who this was

1:23 AM · Jun 11, 2026 · 791 Views
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Users reassure the praised researcher that their current work remains valuable even as they highlight the 2021 OPT 175B training's pioneering role in inspiring large-scale LLM research.

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@suchenzang your work back then was amazing!! and the log book really removed any doubt i had about my desire to do large-scale training research :)

Susan Zhang@suchenzang

guess who this was

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@suchenzang (not meaning to say your work now isn't :) )

@suchenzang your work back then was amazing!! and the log book really removed any doubt i had about my desire to do large-scale training research :)

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