Is "Parameter Creep" going to becomes a thing? They hold up Llama-8b as a competitor despite NeMo having 50% more parameters. The same thing happened with gemma-27b, where they compared it to all the 7-9b models. It seems like an easy way to boost benchmarks while coming off as "small" at first glance.
open-mistral-7b is 25c/m tokens open-mistral-nemo-2407 is 30c/m tokens