K2 wasn’t the first.

China had CPM-1 in 2020 that was a 2.6B model.

GPT-Neo (Mar 2021) EleutherAI replicates early GPT

PanGu-α (Apr 2021) Huawei’s 200B model

WuDao 2.0 (May 2021) BAAI’s massive 1.75T sparse MoE model

GPT-J (Jun 2021) EleutherAI release 6B

Meta released OPT in 2022, BLOOM was in 2022, GLM 130B by Tsinghua/Zhipu was in 2022 etc

K2 horizon is very recent, nowhere near the first. Different labs have different computational innovations worth studying. DeepSeek is crazy efficient and doing very novel things. Mistral in France is making very compact local friendly models that are fun and easy to fine tune and merge on consumer hardware.

Sounds like you didn’t make it past the intro

Well sure human nature exists but there’s also professionalism - unfortunately in many parts of the country these people take an intelligence test to screen out the high scorers.

Home assistant has a perfectly serviceable map in it I forget where it gets the data from

Yeah im a huge nerd and techno-weenie but this is just creepy abuser behavior and a major red flag if it wasn’t consented to im advance