Comment by micw

5 days ago

On a very old model, it's more like 16.000 garbage words/s

Llama 3.1 8B is pretty useful for some thing. I use it to generate SQL pretty reliably for example.

They are doing an updated model in a month or so anyway, then a frontier level one "by summer".

  • but Taalas had to quantize Llama 3.1 8B to death to get it to fit. It can't produce coherent non-English text at all.

I do wonder if there are tasks where 16k garbage words/s are more useful than 200 good words per second. Does anyone have any ideas? Data extraction perhaps?