Exploring the Engineering Behind ChatGPT's Scalability for 700M Users
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Summary
The article discusses the technical challenges of running a GPT-4-class model locally compared to ChatGPT's ability to serve 700 million weekly users. It explores potential engineering optimizations like model sharding, custom hardware, and load balancing that enable such scalability while maintaining low latency.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledSam said yesterday that chatgpt handles ~700M weekly users.
Meanwhile, I can't even run a single GPT-4-class model locally without insane VRAM or painfully slow speeds.
What engineering tricks make this possible at such massive scale while keeping latency low?
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