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Re: Groqchat

#41

That's really fast. But it mostly seems to be because they made a custom chip. I want to see an LLM that is so highly optimized that it runs at this speed on more normal hardware.

But the point is that they made a custom chip. I want to see buy their custom chip so I can have an "LLM box" in my house.

I'd pay quite a bit of money to have a Mixtral box at home, then we'd all have our own, local assistant/helper/partner/whatever. Basically, the plot of the movie Her.

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#42
I saw this in person back in September.

Really impressed by their hardware.

I'm still wondering why is the uptake so slow. My understanding from their presentations was that it was relatively simple to compile a model. Why isn't it more talked about? And why not demo Mixtral or show case multiple models?

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#43

More info about Groq: https://groq.com/lpu-inference-engine/

Thanks, impressive full-stack work. I'm sure this was named long before Musk decided to set 44B and change on fire but at first I confused it with Twitter's own LLM thing.

They addressed it on their blog https://groq.com/hey-elon-its-time-to-cease-de-grok/

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#44

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It’s just running bog standard Llama2-70B by all appearances. I don’t know why so many people here are interested in the outputs. The whole point of this demo is that the company is trying to show off how fast their hardware could host one of your models, not the model itself.

I'd assume it's because that's not explained very well in the linked page.

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#45
I posed this question to GPT-4 and Groq:

"I am building an api in spring boot that persists users documents. This would be for an hr system. There are folders, and documents, which might have very sensitive data. I will need somewhere to store metadata about those documents. I was thinking of using postgres for the emtadata, and s3 for the actual documents. Any better ideas? or off the shelf libraries for this?"

Both were at about parity, except groq suggested using Spring Cloud Storage library, which GPT4 did not suggest. It turns out, that library might be great for my use case. I think OpenAI's days are numbered, the pressure for them to release the next gen model is very high.

Not only that, but GPT4 is quite slow, often times out, etc. These reponses are so much faster, which really does matter.

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#48

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It’s just running bog standard Llama2-70B by all appearances. I don’t know why so many people here are interested in the outputs. The whole point of this demo is that the company is trying to show off how fast their hardware could host one of your models, not the model itself.

Doesn't the speed also depend on the number of people currently accessing it?

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#49
post #15

If only I could read that fast!

Reading is one thing, but think about stuff like website generation, searching for information in massive datasets, real-time audio chats that don't sound like the AI misheard everything with a pause, and stuff like that.

Yeah, I think our desire for tokens/s and lower latency is likely insatiable. Same reason you have a terminal that can print out more than 300 words per minute. Life is way easier when you don't have to be super parsimonious with your output. You suggest a bug fix and regenerate the whole code snippet, or you spit out a webpage on demand and the user scrolls to the bottom immediately, etc.

Re: Groqchat

#50
post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s just running bog standard Llama2-70B by all appearances. I don’t know why so many people here are interested in the outputs. The whole point of this demo is that the company is trying to show off how fast their hardware could host one of your models, not the model itself.

I'd assume it's because that's not explained very well in the linked page.

There is quite literally a modal pop-up that explains it, which you must dismiss before you can begin interacting with the demo. Quoting the pop-up: "This alpha demo lets you experience ultra-low latency performance using the foundational LLM, Llama 2, 70B created by Meta AI - running on Groq."

Towards the bottom of the page, it also says "Model: Llama 2 70B/4096".

Below that, it says "This is a Llama2-based chatbot."

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