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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
Docs fallbackUse the provider REST API or SDKCreate a provider API keymodel: smaug-72bsmaug-72bRequest example
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.