Using DBRX Instruct on Databricks Foundation Model Serving

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Databricks Foundation Model Serving exposes DBRX Instruct through model ID dbrx-instruct. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at Databricks Foundation Model Serving and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the Databricks Foundation Model Serving SDK or REST API to call dbrx-instruct — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.75/1M input, $2.25/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

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Pricing on Databricks Foundation Model Serving

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$0.75
Output tokens$2.25

Capabilities

Structured Outputs

About DBRX Instruct

DBRX Instruct, developed by Databricks, is a cutting-edge large language model designed for various natural language processing tasks. It excels in text summarization, question answering, information extraction, and code generation, utilizing a fine-grained mixture-of-experts architecture with 132 billion parameters. With advanced features like rotary position encodings, gated linear units, and grouped query attention, it performs exceptionally across multiple benchmarks, even outperforming some closed-source models. Trained on a vast 12 trillion token dataset, it supports contexts up to 32,000 tokens. Although primarily effective in English, its multilingual strength isn't fully explored.

Model Specs

Released2024-03-27
Parameters132B
Context32k
ArchitectureMixture of Experts

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Provider

Databricks Foundation Model Serving

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San Francisco, California, United States