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AI Model
GPT-2
The 2019 model 'too dangerous to release', then released.
GPT-2 (1.5B parameters) showed that scaling up next-token prediction produced coherent multi-paragraph text. OpenAI's staged release, citing misuse fears, started the norm-setting debate about publishing powerful models that has shaped the field since. Fully open-sourced by the end of 2019.
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