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T. TaulliGenerative AIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9367-6_2

2. Data

The Fuel for Generative AI
Tom Taulli1  
(1)
Monrovia, CA, USA
 

A large language model (LLM) processes huge amounts of data for its generative AI systems. They are on the scale of petabytes. Consider that a petabyte is 1000 terabytes. This would hold about 500 billion pages of standard text. No doubt, the generative AI models for images and videos are much larger.

Thus, when it comes to generative AI, there needs to be a highly sophisticated data infrastructure. This means not only holding huge volumes but handling the processing at high speeds.

Yet data is often something that does not get ...

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