Microsoft Foundry exposes Smaug 72B through model ID smaug-72b. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.
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Quick Start
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- 2Use the Microsoft Foundry SDK or REST API to call
smaug-72b— see the documentation for request format. - 3
Code Examples
Pricing on Microsoft Foundry
| 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.