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Meet ‘Smaug-72B’: The new king of open-source AI

Abacus AI has released "Smaug-72B," a new open-source AI model that outperforms GPT-3.5 and Mistral Medium on the Hugging Face Open LLM leaderboard.

The model, called “ Smaug-72B,” was released publicly today by the startup Abacus AI, which helps enterprises solve difficult problems in the artificial intelligence and machine learning space. Request an invite While the model still falls short of the 90-100 point average indicative of human-level performance, its birth signals that open source AI may soon rival Big Tech’s capabilities, which have long been shrouded in secrecy. Qwen 1.5 outperforms popular open source models like Mistral-Medium and GPT-3.5, has a 32k context length, and works with various tools and platforms for fast and local inference.

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