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2024

Introducing Llama-3-Groq-Tool-Use Models (via) New from Groq: two custom fine-tuned Llama 3 models specifically designed for tool use. Hugging Face model links:

Groq's own internal benchmarks put their 70B model at the top of the Berkeley Function-Calling Leaderboard with a score of 90.76 (and 89.06 for their 8B model, which would put it at #3). For comparison, Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores 90.18 and GPT-4-0124 scores 88.29.

The two new Groq models are also available through their screamingly-fast (fastest in the business?) API, running at 330 tokens/s and 1050 tokens/s respectively.

Here's the documentation on how to use tools through their API.

# 17th July 2024, 8:32 pm / ai, generative-ai, llms, groq, llm-tool-use

Fast groq-hosted LLMs vs browser jank (via) Groq is now serving LLMs such as Llama 3 so quickly that JavaScript which attempts to render Markdown strings on every new token can cause performance issues in browsers.

Taras Glek's solution was to move the rendering to a requestAnimationFrame() callback, effectively buffering the rendering to the fastest rate the browser can support.

# 19th May 2024, 1:35 pm / javascript, llms, groq

Options for accessing Llama 3 from the terminal using LLM

Visit Options for accessing Llama 3 from the terminal using LLM

Llama 3 was released on Thursday. Early indications are that it’s now the best available openly licensed model—Llama 3 70b Instruct has taken joint 5th place on the LMSYS arena leaderboard, behind only Claude 3 Opus and some GPT-4s and sharing 5th place with Gemini Pro and Claude 3 Sonnet. But unlike those other models Llama 3 70b is weights available and can even be run on a (high end) laptop!

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