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RE: https://flipboard.com/@futurism/all-about-artificial-intelligence-c4ob1hesz/-/a-7mhODcBUTj-2yt4WRWnkIw%3Aa%3A1737388686-%2F0

“#AI companies are looking to spend #trillions of #dollars on data centers to power their increasingly resource-intensive AI models—an astronomical amount of money that could threaten the entire economy if the bet doesn’t pay off.”

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter? – MIT Technology Review

Artificial intelligence

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?

They’re the mysterious numbers that make your favorite AI models tick. What are they and what do they do?

By Will Douglas Heavenarchive page

January 7, 2026

Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/MITTR | Photos Getty

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here.

I am writing this because one of my editors woke up in the middle of the night and scribbled on a bedside notepad: “What is a parameter?” Unlike a lot of thoughts that hit at 4 a.m., it’s a really good question—one that goes right to the heart of how large language models work. And I’m not just saying that because he’s my boss. (Hi, Boss!)

A large language model’s parameters are often said to be the dials and levers that control how it behaves. Think of a planet-size pinball machine that sends its balls pinging from one end to the other via billions of paddles and bumpers set just so. Tweak those settings and the balls will behave in a different way.

OpenAI’s GPT-3, released in 2020, had 175 billion parameters. Google DeepMind’s latest LLM, Gemini 3, may have at least a trillion—some think it’s probably more like 7 trillion—but the company isn’t saying. (With competition now fierce, AI firms no longer share information about how their models are built.)

But the basics of what parameters are and how they make LLMs do the remarkable things that they do are the same across different models. Ever wondered what makes an LLM really tick—what’s behind the colorful pinball-machine metaphors? Let’s dive in.

What is a parameter?

Think back to middle school algebra, like 2a + b. Those letters are parameters: Assign them values and you get a result. In math or coding, parameters are used to set limits or determine output. The parameters inside LLMs work in a similar way, just on a mind-boggling scale.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter? | MIT Technology Review

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Doc Talk Podcast Makes Contact With ‘Every Contact Leaves A Trace’ Director Lynne Sachs And ‘Trillion’s Victor Kossakovsky
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https://deadline.com/2025/12/doc-talk-podcast-lynne-sachs-victor-kosskofsky-1236650761/

How do you LIKE IT ? Your #MILLION #BILLIONS #TRILLIONS dollas????

Watch Video How do you like it your first #MILLION DOLLARS? #GPBNet

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Open Source Software - The $9 Trillion Resource [That For-Profit] Companies Take for Granted
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https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/open-source-software-the-nine-trillion-resource-companies-take-for-granted <-- shared Harvard technical article
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https://youtu.be/YEBBPj7pIKo?si=Y-ysnzq10pv3KX5I <-- shared video of a Linux Foundation technical presentation
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https://blog.geomusings.com/2025/10/16/unless/ <-- shared @bill Dollins excellent technical musings on this
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https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=65230 <-- shared paper
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https://gdal.org/en/stable/software_using_gdal.html#proprietary-license-other <-- example of commercial software using GDAL
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https://evoknow.com/the-true-value-of-open-source-software-trillions-in-economic-impact/ <-- shared technical article
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[a broader scope than my usual posts, but fascinating and illuminating]
#value #cost #economics #trillions #advantage #programming #language #DigitalCommons #opensource #software #global #publicgood #industry #COTS #code #nocost #OSS #free #research #Harvard #HBS #investment #pricetag #resource #public #codecreation #networks #scope #businesses #usecase #support #technical #solutions #aluation #OpenSourceDistribution #ApplicationsAndSoftware
@HBR

🔍🤓 Another day, another "bug" found by Cloudflare's elite bug-detecting squad! 330 cities, #trillions of requests, and a minor hiccup in Go's ARM64 compiler—you'd think they'd be more concerned with their user interface from 2003. 😂🌐
https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-found-a-bug-in-gos-arm64-compiler/ #Cloudflare #Bug #Detection #Go #Compiler #UserInterface #HackerNews #ngated

The dementia patient is dissembling freely again:

> "Without Tariffs, and all of the TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS we have already taken in,
> our Country would be completely destroyed, and our military power would be
> instantly obliterated"

Trillions? The actual figure for the whole of this administration is around 100 billion - and that's including tariffs, customs / duty, and excise taxes that existed pre-tantrum.

He's mad judges have correctly ruled that his (limited) authority to levy tariffs in an emergency doesn't just let him do anything and everything he wants, forever.

Someone please take the phone away from grandpa. He needs to sleep.

#USPol #Trump #tariff #tariffs #revenue #customs #excise #trillions #billions #dissemble #lie #MentalPatient #dementia #demented #rant #raving #lunatic #USA #tantrum #TACO

#Trillions, de Nicholas Fisk.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wge2pxx433rrmrhufniwht4i/post/3lwltdpoc5k2m

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMNrJWuOI0Q/?igsh=MW1odjZtZ2dzeHJxZQ==

#trump #usa #maga #fake #windmill #trillions

exactly #Alberta #Conservatives terrible economic management of #Alberta resource wealth given to #International #Corporations #trillions in wealth lost

With #Trillions wiped out from #StockMarkets across the world... Time for my favourite song, written/composed just after the 2008 crash...

https://youtu.be/zrNA3U1XKew?si=wqsptLWyyUqT4ljX

#TheDestroyers #PaulMurphy #WhereHasTheMoneyGone
#WhereDidItGo

#WhereWillThisMoneyGo

#trillions you say OK:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Eb5Bmgtgdr0 18 fing trillion "" " " #bank
there's your fing politics shit gfy #conservatives and you're bs

We'll make billions and trillions of dollars... 🤑

#trump #goldvisas #trillions

@davidaugust Am just trying to imagine what it means to "face" a combined financial and infrastructurpower of that #clubofoligarchs #trillions on the phon. 😬
That's why i chose this GIF.
I think there is a LOT going on we don't get to know.

“We #share new #evidence of how the #yachts, #jets and #polluting #investments of the 50 #richest #billionaires are #accelerating the #climate #crisis. Oxfam’s #research #shows that the #emissions of the world’s #super-#rich 1% are causing #economic #losses of #trillions of #dollars; contributing to #huge #crop #losses; and #leading to #millions of #excess #deaths.” #eattherich #inequality #climatecrisis #climatechange #environment #CapitalisIsNotWorking

https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/carbon-inequality-kills-why-curbing-the-excessive-emissions-of-an-elite-few-can-621656/

Separate #DOJ statement:

"TD Bank intentionally did not automatically monitor all domestic automated clearinghouse (ACH) transactions, most check activity, and numerous other transaction types, resulting in 92% of total transaction volume going unmonitored from Jan. 1, 2018, to April 12, 2024. This amounted to approximately $18.3 trillion of transaction activity."

10th largest US bank.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/td-bank-pleads-guilty-bank-secrecy-act-and-money-laundering-conspiracy-violations-18b
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#money #crime #trillions #MoneyLaundering