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Why use Smaug 72B on Microsoft Foundry?
Microsoft Foundry offers Smaug 72B with pay-as-you-go pricing at $1.00/1M input tokens. Microsoft Foundry is a unified Azure platform-as-a-service offering for enterprise AI operations, model builders, and application development.
Setup recipe
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smaug-72b.Gotchas
No curated gotchas have been sourced for this exact provider/model route yet.
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $1.00 |
| Output tokens | $2.00 |
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
About Smaug 72B
Smaug 72B is a large language model (LLM) developed by Abacus AI, distinguished as the first open-source model to exceed an average score of 80% on the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard. It excels in various tasks, outperforming even some proprietary models like GPT-3.5 in specific benchmarks. The model is based on the Qwen-72B and fine-tuned using a novel DPO-Positive (DPOP) technique, leveraging datasets such as ARC, HellaSwag, and MetaMath. Its capabilities include question answering, text translation, and poem generation, with notable performance in reasoning and math tasks. Despite its strengths, Smaug 72B faces limitations such as dataset contamination and challenges in complex contextual understanding. Its open-source nature allows for community-based enhancements and it supports a 32k context length for processing longer inputs.
FAQ
What does Smaug 72B cost on Microsoft Foundry?
On Microsoft Foundry, Smaug 72B costs $1.00 per 1M input tokens and $2.00 per 1M output tokens.
What is the context window for Smaug 72B on Microsoft Foundry?
Smaug 72B supports a 32k token context window on Microsoft Foundry.
Who created Smaug 72B?
Smaug 72B was created by Abacus.AI as part of the Smaug model family.
Is Smaug 72B open source?
Smaug 72B's open source status is unknown in the seed data.