LLM Reference

Sonar Medium Chat

Deprecated

About

Sonar Medium Chat is a large language model developed by Perplexity AI, released on February 1, 2024. It is part of the Sonar model family and utilizes a Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture with 8x7B parameters and a 32K context window. This design aims to balance performance with cost-efficiency, providing up-to-date information and generating detailed responses to concise prompts. However, it may face challenges handling extensive contexts or tasks like conversation simulation and role-playing. Sonar Medium Chat takes advantage of Perplexity AI's search infrastructure to incorporate real-time data, addressing traditional LLM limitations in accessing current information 248.

Capabilities

MultimodalFunction CallingTool UseJSON Mode

Specifications

FamilySonar
Released2024-02-01
Parameters8x7B
Context32K
ArchitectureMixture of Experts
Specializationgeneral