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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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What are good API providers that serve mixtral? I know only octo ai which seems decent but will be good to know alternatives too

Both already mentioned, but I am using Anyscale Endpoints with great success, very fast and will work on ten jobs at a go out of the box. Together.ai also seems to work fine in my initial tests, but haven't tried it at scale yet.

Re: Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default

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post #60

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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

It is dead slow on integrated graphics, unfortunately.

Re: Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default

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post #13

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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 had less luck with Mixtral, but I run Yi 34B finetunes for general personal use, including quick queries for work.

Its kinda like GPT 3.5, with no internet access and slightly less reliable responses, but unrestrained, much faster and with a huge (up to 75K on my Nvidia 3090) usable context.

Mixtral is extremely fast though, at least at a batch size of 1.

Re: Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default

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post #85
post #4

It's nice using Brave because you have Chromium's better performance, without having to worry about Manifest V2 dying and taking adblocking down with it. I have uBlock Origin enabled, but it has barely caught anything that slipped past the browser filters.

If by performance you mean browser performance, you have more performance with Firefox nowadays. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36770883

I use firefox because it has the most hassle-free hardware decoding in linux. However, everything basically feels better with Brave, even with the same amount of plug-ins.

Re: Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default

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post #51
post #2

If you want to run Mixtral 8x7B locally you can use llama.cpp (including with any of the supporting libraries/interfaces such as text-generation-webui) with https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-S... . The smallest quantized version (2bit) needs 20GB of RAM (which can be offloaded onto the VRAM of a decent 4090 GPU). The 4bit quantized versions are the largest models that can just about fit onto…

Using TheBloke nous-hermes-2-mixtral-8x7b-dpo.Q5_K_M.gguf, llam.cpp with oobabooga, on Ryzen 9 7950x and RTX 2070 super, offloading 4 layers to the GPU. 27,631MiB system memory used. 7358/8192MiB usage on the GPU. I'm getting 6.32 tokens/second. You: You are Hunter S. Thompson, write a 450 words essay on the LHC project. The writing must be in Thompson's style AI: Well, buckle up, kiddos, because we're about to dive…

I am using the exact same model. Ryzen 5600G w/32GB and an Nvidia P40 w/24GB VRAM

20/33 layers offloaded to GPU, 4K context. Uses 25GB system RAM and all 24GB VRAM. 5-7 tokens per second.

Re: Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default

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If you want to run Mixtral 8x7B locally you can use llama.cpp (including with any of the supporting libraries/interfaces such as text-generation-webui) with https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-S... . The smallest quantized version (2bit) needs 20GB of RAM (which can be offloaded onto the VRAM of a decent 4090 GPU). The 4bit quantized versions are the largest models that can just about fit onto…

Faraday.dev has it in its selection of models now. Good for us clueless Windows folks. Runs decently fast with 16gb mobile 3080 gpu. Results seem better than any other free option.

Re: Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default

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post #2

If you want to run Mixtral 8x7B locally you can use llama.cpp (including with any of the supporting libraries/interfaces such as text-generation-webui) with https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-S... . The smallest quantized version (2bit) needs 20GB of RAM (which can be offloaded onto the VRAM of a decent 4090 GPU). The 4bit quantized versions are the largest models that can just about fit onto…

Why not normal RAM? Ryzen 5600 with 128GB DDR4 is perfectly fine to run mixtral 8bit, and costs less than $1000. GPUs are only needed if you can not wait 5 minutes for an answer, or for training.

> GPUs are only needed if you can not wait 5 minutes for an answer

Yeah, but that's generally true (or at least, “5 minutes for an answer is very suboptimal”, even if “can’t” isn’t quite true) for interactive use cases, which are... a lot of LLM use cases.

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