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Re: Codestral Mamba

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If you can run this using ollama, then you should be able to use https://www.continue.dev/ with both IntelliJ and VSCode. Haven’t tried this model yet - but overall this plugin works well.

They say no llama.cpp support yet, so no ollama yet (which uses llama.cpp)

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Re: Codestral Mamba

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Better yet install Open Web GUI and ollama at the same time via docker. Most people will want a familiar GUI rather than the terminal. https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui This will install ollama and open web GUI: For GPU support run: docker run -d -p 3000:8080 --gpus=all -v ollama:/root/.ollama -v open-webui:/app/backend/data --name open-webui --restart always ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:ollama Use for CPU on…

Why do people recommend this instead of the much better oobabooga text-gen-webui? https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui It's like you hate settings, features, and access to many backends!

To each their own, how are you using these extra features? I personally am not looking to spend a bunch on API credits and don't have the hardware to run models larger than 7-8b parameters. I use local llms almost exclusively for formatting notes and as a reading assistant/summarizer and therefor don't need these features.

Re: Codestral Mamba

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post #36
post #16

But I JUST switched from GPT4o to Claude! :( Kidding, but it isn't clear how to use this thing, as others have pointed out.

What made you switch?

I'm using both, been doing that for months now. I can confidently assert that while Claude is getting better and better, GPT 4 and 4o seem the be getting dumbed down for some unexplained reason. Claude is now my go-to for anything code. (I do Ruby and C#, btw, other might have a different experience)

Re: Codestral Mamba

#44
post #11

The first sentence is wrong. The website says: > As a tribute to Cleopatra, whose glorious destiny ended in tragic snake circumstances but according to Wikipedia this is not true: > When Cleopatra learned that Octavian planned to bring her to his Roman triumphal procession, she killed herself by poisoning, contrary to the popular belief that she was bitten by an asp.

What bothers me more is that the legend is that she was killed by an asp, not a mamba.

Re: Codestral Mamba

#45
post #32

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If you can run this using ollama, then you should be able to use https://www.continue.dev/ with both IntelliJ and VSCode. Haven’t tried this model yet - but overall this plugin works well.

They say no llama.cpp support yet, so no ollama yet (which uses llama.cpp)

Correct. The only back-end that Ollama uses is llama.cpp, and llama.cpp does not yet have Mamba2 support. The issues to track Mamba2 and Codestral Mamba support are here:

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/8519

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/7727

Mamba support was added in March of this year:

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/5328

I have not yet seen a PR to address Mamba2.

Re: Codestral Mamba

#46
post #8

What are the steps required to get this running in VS Code? If they had linked to the instructions in their post (or better yet a link to a one click install of a VS Code Extension), it would help a lot with adoption. (BTW I consider it malpractice that they are at the top of hacker news with a model that is of great interest to a large portion of the users where and they do not have a monetizable call to action on t…

"All you need is users" doesn't seem optimal IMHO, Stability.ai providing an object lesson in that. They just released weights, and being a for profit, need to optimize for making money, not eyeballs. It seems wise to guide people to the API offering.

On top of Hacker News (the target demographic for coders) without an effective monetizable call to action? What a missed opportunity.

Github Copilot makes +100M/year, if not way way more.

Having a VS Code extension for Mistral would be a revenue stream if it was one-click and better or cheaper than Github Copilot. It is malpractice in my mind to not be doing this if you are investing in creating coding models.

Re: Codestral Mamba

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post #8

What are the steps required to get this running in VS Code? If they had linked to the instructions in their post (or better yet a link to a one click install of a VS Code Extension), it would help a lot with adoption. (BTW I consider it malpractice that they are at the top of hacker news with a model that is of great interest to a large portion of the users where and they do not have a monetizable call to action on t…

"All you need is users" doesn't seem optimal IMHO, Stability.ai providing an object lesson in that. They just released weights, and being a for profit, need to optimize for making money, not eyeballs. It seems wise to guide people to the API offering.

But they also signal competence in the space which means M&A. Or big nation states in future would hire them to produce country models once the space matures as was Emad's vision.

Re: Codestral Mamba

#49
post #33

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Looking through the Quickstart docs, they have an API that can generate code. However, I don't think they have a way to do "Day 2" code editing. Also, doesn't seem to have a freemium tier...need to start paying even before trying it out ? "Our API is currently available through La Plateforme. You need to activate payments on your account to enable your API keys."

I signed up when codestral was first available and put my payment details in. Been using it daily since then with continue.dev but my usage dashboard shows 0 tokens, and so far have not been billed for anything... Definitely not clear anywhere, but it seems to be free for now? Or some sort of free limit that I am not hitting.

Through codestral.mistral.ai? It's free until August 1st: https://docs.mistral.ai/capabilities/code_generation/

>Monthly subscription based, free until 1st of August

Re: Codestral Mamba

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post #36
post #16

But I JUST switched from GPT4o to Claude! :( Kidding, but it isn't clear how to use this thing, as others have pointed out.

What made you switch?

Claude is much better. Overwhelmingly better. It not only implements deep learning models for me, it has great suggestions on evolving them to actually work.
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