Yi is a series of LLMs trained from scratch at 01.AI. The models have the same architecture of Llama, making them compatible with all the llama-based ecosystems. Just in November, they released
- Base 6B and 34B models
- Models with extended context of up to 200k tokens
- Today, the Chat models
With the release, they are also releasing 4-bit quantized by AWQ and 8-bit quantized by GPTQ
- Chat model - https://huggingface.co/01-ai/Yi-34B-Chat
- Demo to try it out - https://huggingface.co/spaces/01-ai/Yi-34B-Chat
Things to consider:
- Llama compatible format, so you can use across a bunch of tools
- License is not commercial unfortunately, but you can request commercial use and they are quite responsive
- 34B is an amazing model size for consumer GPUs
- Yi-34B is at the top of the OS Leaderboard, making it a very strong base model for a chat one
I started using the Tess Yi 34b 200k the other day and it’s been fantastic. Of the 34bs I’ve tried so far, I’m really enjoying it the most for an AI assistant. I definitely recommend toying around with it.
If you do like me and use a Vicuna instruct, make sure to put a custom stop string of “”