New Vision Model Training Started

This time around we went from 38,000 to 47,000 taxa

That’s a big jump. Any idea of the breakdown between additional species vs other taxonomic ranks that are being included this time around? The announcement on the July 2021 model didn’t mention it, but the announcement for the March 2020 model did and it had ~21000 species and ~2500 genera. How many species & genera are there now and how many will be in the forthcoming iteration?

Also, the “leaf model” terminology is confusing, given that a species may or may not be a leaf node and genera are never leaf nodes.

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