I've been telling analysts/investors for a long time that dense architectures aren't "worse" than sparse MoEs and to continue to anticipate the see-saw of releases on those two sub-architectures. Glad to continuously be vindicated on this one.
replyFor those who don't believe me. Go take a look at the logprobs of a MoE model and a dense model and let me know if you can notice anything. Researchers sure did.
MoE isn't inherently better, but I do think it's still an under explored space. When your sparse model can do 5 runs on the same prompt in the same time as a dense model takes to generate one, there opens up all sorts of interesting possibilities.
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