

Once you start trying to do anything that involves employing people (e.g. running a small business) you start realising how far a million goes. 5 software engineers in an office with equipment for a year? In a European country or USA/Canada, you’ll need the best part of a million. It’s not just salaries. There’s also employment taxes and other costs to consider.
A billion and it’s now more like 750 engineers for 15 years.







Not with general purpose LLMs. They start off ok, but become much more interested in continuing the text they’ve already translated, rather than looking back to what it is they’re meant to translate. So they drift off course as the translation gets longer.