12/11/2023: Mixtral beats GPT3.5 and Llama2-70B
Mistral AI announced the Mixtral 8x7B model featuring a Sparse Mixture of Experts (SMoE) architecture, sparking discussions on its potential to rival GPT-4. The community debated GPU hardware options for training and fine-tuning transformer models, including RTX 4070s, A4500, RTX 3090s with nvlink, and A100 GPUs. Interest was expressed in fine-tuning Mixtral and generating quantized versions, alongside curating high-quality coding datasets. Resources shared include a YouTube video on open-source model deployment, an Arxiv paper, GitHub repositories, and a blog post on Mixture-of-Experts. Discussions also touched on potential open-source releases of GPT-3.5 Turbo and llama-3, and running OpenHermes 2.5 on Mac M3 Pro with VRAM considerations.