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Re: Open models by OpenAI

#142

Anyone tried running on a Mac M1 with 16GB RAM yet? I've never run higher than an 8GB model, but apparently this one is specifically designed to work well with 16 GB of RAM.

Update: I tried it out. It took about 8 seconds per token, and didn't seem to be using much of my GPU (MPU), but was using a lot of RAM. Not a model that I could use practically on my machine.

Re: Open models by OpenAI

#143
post #104

I looked through their torch implementation and noticed that they are applying RoPE to both query and key matrices in every layer of the transformer - is this standard? I thought positional encodings were usually just added once at the first layer

No they’re usually done at each attention layer.

Do you know when this was introduced (or which paper)? AFAIK it's not that way in the original transformer paper, or BERT/GPT-2

Re: Open models by OpenAI

#144

Text only, when local multimodal became table stakes last year.

Honestly, it's a tradeoff. If you can reduce the size and make a higher quality in specific tasks, that's better than a generalist that can't run on a laptop or can't compete at any one task. We will know soon the actual quality as we go.

That's what I thought too until Qwen-Image was released

Re: Open models by OpenAI

#145
post #41

Looks like Groq (at 1k+ tokens/second) and Fireworks are already live on openrouter: https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-oss-120b $0.15M in / $0.6-0.75M out edit: Now Cerebras too at 3,815 tps for $0.25M / $0.69M out.

I apologize for linking to Twitter, but I can't post a video here, so:

https://x.com/tekacs/status/1952788922666205615

Asking it about a marginally more complex tech topic and getting an excellent answer in ~4 seconds, reasoning for 1.1 seconds...

I am _very_ curious to see what GPT-5 turns out to be, because unless they're running on custom silicon / accelerators, even if it's very smart, it seems hard to justify not using these open models on Groq/Cerebras for a _huge_ fraction of use-cases.

Re: Open models by OpenAI

#146
post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It only seems like that if you haven't been following other open source efforts. Models like Qwen perform ridiculously well and do so on very restricted hardware. I'm looking forward to seeing benchmarks to see how these new open source models compare.

Agreed, these models seem relatively mediocre to Qwen3 / GLM 4.5

You can always get your $0 back.

Re: Open models by OpenAI

#147
post #145
post #41

Looks like Groq (at 1k+ tokens/second) and Fireworks are already live on openrouter: https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-oss-120b $0.15M in / $0.6-0.75M out edit: Now Cerebras too at 3,815 tps for $0.25M / $0.69M out.

I apologize for linking to Twitter, but I can't post a video here, so: https://x.com/tekacs/status/1952788922666205615 Asking it about a marginally more complex tech topic and getting an excellent answer in ~4 seconds, reasoning for 1.1 seconds... I am _very_ curious to see what GPT-5 turns out to be, because unless they're running on custom silicon / accelerators, even if it's very smart, it seems hard to justify no…

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Re: Open models by OpenAI

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post #132
post #41

Looks like Groq (at 1k+ tokens/second) and Fireworks are already live on openrouter: https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-oss-120b $0.15M in / $0.6-0.75M out edit: Now Cerebras too at 3,815 tps for $0.25M / $0.69M out.

It is interesting that openai isn't offering any inference for these models.

Makes sense to me. Inference on these models will be a race to the bottom. Hosting inference themselves will be a waste of compute / dollar for them.

Re: Open models by OpenAI

#150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed, these models seem relatively mediocre to Qwen3 / GLM 4.5

Nah, these are much smaller models than Qwen3 and GLM 4.5 with similar performance. Fewer parameters and fewer bits per parameter. They are much more impressive and will run on garden variety gaming PCs at more than usable speed. I can't wait to try on my 4090 at home. There's basically no reason to run other open source models now that these are available, at least for non-multimodal tasks.

Qwen3 has multiple variants ranging from larger (230B) than these models to significantly smaller (0.6b), with a huge number of options in between. For each of those models they also release quantized versions (your "fewer bits per parameter).

I'm still withholding judgement until I see benchmarks, but every point you tried to make regarding model size and parameter size is wrong. Qwen has more variety on every level, and performs extremely well. That's before getting into the MoE variants of the models.

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