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Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

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Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

#91
I've been using Phind this past week and it's been excellent.

One of our vendors insisted on whitelisting the IPs we were going to call them from, and our deployments went through AWS copilot/Fargate directly to the public subnets. Management had fired the only person with infrastructure experience a few months ago (very small company), and nobody left knew anything about networking.

Within about a week, Phind brought me from questions like "What is a VPC?" "What is a subnet?" to having set up the NAT gateways, diagnosing deploy problems and setting up the VPC endpoints in AWS' crazy complicated setup, and gotten our app onto the private subnet and routing outbound traffic through the NAT for that vendor.

Yes, it occasionally spit out nonsense (using the free/instant model). I even caught it blatantly lying about its sources once. Even so, once I asked the right questions it helped me learn and execute so much faster than I would have trying to cobble understanding through ordinary google searches, docs, and blog posts.

Strongly recommended if you're ever wading into a new/unfamiliar topic.

Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

#93

Okay, wait this is actually doing a really good job. I still have to ask follow up questions to get reasonable results but when I tested earlier this year it was outright failing on most of my test queries.

That’s great to hear! What are you asking it?

Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

#94

Phind continues to be my favorite AI-enhanced search engine. They do a really nice job giving answers to technical questions with links to references where I can verify the answer or learn more detail. Some recent examples from my history: what video formats does mastodon support? https://www.phind.com/search?cache=jpa8gv7lv54orvpu2c7j1b5j compare xfs and ext4fs https://www.phind.com/search?cache=h9rmhe6ddav1bnb2odtc…

Phind was my go-to for getting more relevant and up-to-date information that could be found on the internet... but that stopped about 3+ months ago.

Many times the answers seemed to be getting more and more incomplete or incorrect as time went on (to a variety of questions over a period of months). Even worse it would say it couldn't find the answer, yet the answer was among the sites noted as reference!

I've ended up mostly resorting to Bing and gpt 4o. Frankly, I'm hesitant to waste time trying this new version.

Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

#95
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"Phind-405B scores 92% on HumanEval (0-shot), matching Claude 3.5 Sonnet". I'd love to see examples of actual code modifications created by Phind and Sonnet back-to-back. This level of transparency would give me the confidence to try to pro. As it is, I'm skeptical by the claim and actual performance as I've yet to see a finetuned model from Llama3.1 that performed notably better in an area without suffering problems…

I’ve been a customer of Phind for a number of months now, so I’m familiar with the capabilities of all the models they offer. I found even Phind-70B to often be preferable to Claude Sonnet and would commonly opt for it. I’ve been using the 405B today and it seems to be even better at answering. I’ve found it does depend on the task. For instance, for formatting JSON in the past, GPT-4 was actually the best. Because y…

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Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

#96
I think that LMM should not produce answers to questions. Instead, they should generate keywords, make keyword search and give quotes from human-written material as an answer.

So what LLM should do is only search and filter human-written material.

An example of search query is "What is the temporal duration between striking adjacent strings to form a chord on a guitar?". Google (being just a dumb keyword search engine) produces mostly unrelated search results (generally answering what chords there are and how does one play them). Phind also cannot answer: [1]

However, when I asked a LLM what keywords I should use to find this, it suggested "guitar chord microtiming" among other choices, which allows to find a research work containing the answer (5 to 12 ms if someone is curious).

[1] https://www.phind.com/search?cache=u4xiqluairg3zkdaxstcr39v

Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

#97

I've been using Phind this past week and it's been excellent . One of our vendors insisted on whitelisting the IPs we were going to call them from, and our deployments went through AWS copilot/Fargate directly to the public subnets. Management had fired the only person with infrastructure experience a few months ago (very small company), and nobody left knew anything about networking. Within about a week, Phind broug…

How does it compare to Perplexity or even plain vanilla ChatGPT? Did you specifically seek to use Phind because you weren't satisfied with others? Or did it just happen to be the first one you used?

Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

#99

Okay, wait this is actually doing a really good job. I still have to ask follow up questions to get reasonable results but when I tested earlier this year it was outright failing on most of my test queries.

That’s great to hear! What are you asking it?

These are the types of questions I want to ask it:

> What degrees are held by each of the current Fortune 100 CEOs?

> What job did each of the current NFL GMs hold before their current position?

> Which genre would each of the current Billboard Hot 100 songs be considered part of?

> How many recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom were born outside of the US?

> Which US car company has the most models in their 2025 line-up across all of their brands?

It can't handle those directly right now.

You need to break the problem down step by step and sort of walk it through gathering the data with follow up questions.

But much better than it used to be.

Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

#100
Ive given up on phind. The company seems like a bit of a dodgy black hole in terms of what they do with information (the answer is - i dont know, but i requested to try find out so my company could use them and got no reply). Seems untrustworthy…
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