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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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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 a 32GB system (29GB-31B). The 6bit (41GB) and 8bit (52GB) models need a 64GB system. You would need multiple GPUs with shared memory if you wanted to offload the higher precision models to VRAM.

I've experimented with the 7B and 13B models, but haven't experimented with these models yet, nor other larger models.

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…

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

Re: Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default

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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.

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…

When talking about memory requirements one also needs to mention the sequence length. In case of Mixtral, which supports 32000 tokens, this can be a significant chunk of the memory used.

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…

And if you want better performance when talking about code, you can try the dolphin-mixtral fine tuning https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/dolphin-2.7-mixtral-8x7b-GGU...

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…

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.

Re: Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default

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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.

Is this submarine comment?

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.

Or if you want multiple sessions at the same time. Or if you want to do anything else with your machine while it's running.

But realistically, 5 minutes is too long. It should be conversational, and for that you need at least 5 tokens per second. Which your Ryzen just can't do.

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…

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.

That was what I was referring to with the 32/64 GB systems.
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