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Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default

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Re: Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default

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> You would need multiple GPUs with shared memory if you wanted to offload the higher precision models to VRAM. Or just a powerful apple silicon machine? I've tried dolphin mixtral 4bit on a 36gb ram MacBook m3, and inference is super fast.

Did you do anything special to make that work? Is it useful? Or just a toy?

I've been using it for 'easy' queries like syntax/parameter questions, in place of ChatGPT 4. It's great for that. I am using a ~48GB version.

Re: Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default

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Or a Linux machine with a Ryzen using the internal GPU and the unified RAM (scroll down at llama.cpp and look for ROCm).

What? I can do this? Runs to the PC EDIT: I cannot, I need to install ROCm to compile with it, and then install something called hipBLAS, and who knows what else.

OpenCL should also work on AMD cards, and is way easier to install

Re: Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default

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What? I can do this? Runs to the PC EDIT: I cannot, I need to install ROCm to compile with it, and then install something called hipBLAS, and who knows what else.

OpenCL should also work on AMD cards, and is way easier to install

Does that let me use unified memory on the GPU, though? Or is it just so I can use my CPU memory?

EDIT: Oh, no, I have an nVidia GPU, AMD CPU.

Re: Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default

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Interesting, I must have missed the first Leo announcement. I really like how privacy conscious it is. They don’t store any chat record which is what I want.

There is no way to confirm that claim, just like there is no way to confirm that a VPN service is "no log".

Re: Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default

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> You would need multiple GPUs with shared memory if you wanted to offload the higher precision models to VRAM. Or just a powerful apple silicon machine? I've tried dolphin mixtral 4bit on a 36gb ram MacBook m3, and inference is super fast.

Did you do anything special to make that work? Is it useful? Or just a toy?

I have a 14" MBP with an M1 Max and 64GB. The M3 won't really make a difference, but the RAM, since unified, is huge. I can run most models on this machine with realtime performance compared to a Ryzen 7735HS and 64GB (DDR5). Now I'm not saying the Ryzen setup should be good, but the M1 architecture just makes it a much better option. I could add an eGPU to the Ryzen system and it could likely do better, but would also exceed the price point and portability.

Re: Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default

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I can run 4bit on a beat up 1070 ti. GP talks about higher precision models

You wouldn’t be able to fit the whole model into 8GB VRAM. It’s faster than not using a GPU at all, but most of it would still be computed on the CPU.

IME ollama ran mixtral on a 1070 fast enough.

Re: Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default

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I prefer koboldcpp over llama.cpp. It’s easy to spilt between gpu/cpu on models larger than VRAM

I've got an aging 2080Ti and Ryzen 3800X with 96GB RAM, any point in trying to mess with the GPU or? Haven't really been able to justify upgrading to a 4090 or similar given I play so few new games these days.

I had only cuda installed and it took 2 ollama shell commands in WSL2 from quite literally 0 local LLM experience to running mixtral fast enough on a 1070 and 12700k. Go for it.

Re: Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default

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> You would need multiple GPUs with shared memory if you wanted to offload the higher precision models to VRAM. Or just a powerful apple silicon machine? I've tried dolphin mixtral 4bit on a 36gb ram MacBook m3, and inference is super fast.

Or a Linux machine with a Ryzen using the internal GPU and the unified RAM (scroll down at llama.cpp and look for ROCm).

Or a jetson orin agx (~2k$). Probably the cheapest way to get an Nvidia GPU with 64 GB of RAM.
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