I'm honestly surprised that they even had the inclination to attempt creating a model. I guess it's bullish that a municipal IT department had the guts to try this?

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Havoc 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Merges and fine tunes are within reach of individuals with some money to burn so I’m sure a muni can do it

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axus 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I like the [dead] comment theory that they proposed a huge LLM training budget to the government, kept most of the money, and released a cheap merge to justify the grift.

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dormento an hour ago | parent | next [-]

This would be so very brazilian of them.

Source: am Huelander.

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seba_dos1 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's kinda weird to claim extraordinary results in such case though, as that brings a lot of eyes to it.

	▲	mgambati an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Nothing weird. The mayor wanted something brag about. That Rio, my friend.

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matheusmoreira 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's essentially Brazil's standard operating procedure. Wouldn't be surprising if that turned out to be the case.

Still, I'm actually impressed that this even happened at all. "Rio de Janeiro's homegrown LLM" is the last headline I expected to read on HN.