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Topic: "hardware-setup"
The Dissection of Smaug (72B)
smaug-72b qwen-1.0 qwen-1.5 gpt-4 mistral-7b miqumaid wizardlm_evol_instruct_v2_196k openhermes-2.5 abacus-ai hugging-face nous-research laion thebloke lm-studio intel nvidia elevenlabs fine-tuning model-merging quantization web-ui model-conversion hardware-setup privacy image-generation optical-character-recognition prompt-engineering bindureddy
Abacus AI launched Smaug 72B, a large finetune of Qwen 1.0, which remains unchallenged on the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard despite skepticism from Nous Research. LAION introduced a local voice assistant model named Bud-E with a notable demo. The TheBloke Discord community discussed model performance trade-offs between large models like GPT-4 and smaller quantized models, fine-tuning techniques using datasets like WizardLM_evol_instruct_V2_196k and OpenHermes-2.5, and challenges in web UI development and model merging involving Mistral-7b and MiquMaid. The LM Studio Discord highlighted issues with model conversion from PyTorch to gguf, hardware setups involving Intel Xeon CPUs and Nvidia P40 GPUs, privacy concerns, and limitations in image generation and web UI availability.