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๐Ÿฆ™ Mistral 7B & Ollama: LLMs ๐Ÿ’ Apache 2.0 Open Source on small hardwares

๐Ÿ’ญ About

I recently felt on this news:

Mistral AI makes its first large language model free for everyone | TechCrunch

Mistral, a French AI startup that raised a huge seed round in June, has debuted its first model, totally free to download and use.

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The two key points that kept my attention were:

the model was released under the Apache 2.0 license,...

and

Mistral 7B is a further refinement of other โ€œsmallโ€ large language models like Llama 2, offering similar capabilities (according to some standard benchmarks) at a considerably smaller compute cost

Then a few weeks later the release of the "GenAI Stack":

๐Ÿ‘‰ So I started to look around... and find the benefits I could take out of these tools.

๐Ÿ’ญ Then & now

Actually my only two options were:

  • Use my OpenAI account and use gpt-3.5-turbo flavours or gpt-4 to achieve custom projects (and share my data with OpenAI)
  • Use Kaggle GPUs resources & play with resources for free... still with the need to share (at least temporarly my resources) with Kaggle

๐ŸŽฏ What we'll achieve

With these two announcements, I wondered what I could achieve locally on my own hardware:

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๐Ÿ‘‰ This blog post is dedicated to the unboxing of this stack and the amazing perspectives it unleashes... and why Open Source matters.

๐Ÿฟ Demo

๐Ÿ’ก Load any custom model into ollama

Below a short an easy trick on how to install a finetuned custom model into ollama : jackalope-7b (a fine tuned version of Mistral-7B).

๐Ÿ”– Bookmarks

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