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Frugal AI
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The dominant AI paradigm's development involves stealing data, killing the environment, and exploiting labor
80% confidenceWhen investors in small language AI organizations learn of Big Tech model releases covering their languages, they pressure the startups to shut down
80% confidenceMeta's No Language Left Behind model covering 200 languages caused investors to tell small African language NLP startups to shut down
80% confidenceOpenAI representatives have threatened small language AI organizations by claiming OpenAI will make them obsolete and offering to pay them very little for their data
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