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Re: Mistral NeMo

#11

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.

Oddly, they are only charging slightly more for their hosted version:

open-mistral-7b is 25c/m tokens open-mistral-nemo-2407 is 30c/m tokens

https://mistral.ai/technology/#pricing

Re: Mistral NeMo

#12

> Today, we are excited to release Mistral NeMo, a 12B model built in collaboration with NVIDIA. Mistral NeMo offers a large context window of up to 128k tokens. Its reasoning, world knowledge, and coding accuracy are state-of-the-art in its size category. As it relies on standard architecture, Mistral NeMo is easy to use and a drop-in replacement in any system using Mistral 7B. > We have released pre-trained base an…

Easy head math: parameter count times parameter size plus 20-40% for inference slop space. Anywhere from 8-40GB of vram required depending on quantization levels being used.

Re: Mistral NeMo

#14
Pardon me if this is a dumb question, but is it possible for me to download these models into my computer (I have a 1080ti and a [2|3]070ti) and generate some sort of api interface? That way I can write programs that calls this API, and I find this appealing.

EDIT: This a 1W light bulb moment for me, thank you!

Re: Mistral NeMo

#16

Pardon me if this is a dumb question, but is it possible for me to download these models into my computer (I have a 1080ti and a [2|3]070ti) and generate some sort of api interface? That way I can write programs that calls this API, and I find this appealing. EDIT: This a 1W light bulb moment for me, thank you!

AFAIK, Ollama supports most of these models locally and will expose a REST API[0]

[0]: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/api.md

Re: Mistral NeMo

#18
I’m AI stupid. Does anyone know if training on multiple languages provides “cross-over” — so training done in German can be utilized when answering a prompt in English? I once went through various Wikipedia articles in a couple languages and the differences were interesting. For some reason I thought they’d be almost verbatim (forgetting that’s not how Wikipedia works!) and while I can’t remember exactly I felt they were sometimes starkly different in tone and content.

Re: Mistral NeMo

#19

Pardon me if this is a dumb question, but is it possible for me to download these models into my computer (I have a 1080ti and a [2|3]070ti) and generate some sort of api interface? That way I can write programs that calls this API, and I find this appealing. EDIT: This a 1W light bulb moment for me, thank you!

llama.cpp or ollama both have apis for most models

Re: Mistral NeMo

#20
I find it interesting how coding/software development still appears to be the one category that these most popular models release specialised models for. Where's the finance or legal models from Mistral or Meta or OpenAI?

Perhaps it's just confirmation bias, but programming really does seem to be the ideal usecase for LLMs in a way that other professions just haven't been able to crack. Compared to other types of work, it's relatively more straight forward to tell if code is "correct" or not.

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