alt Hacker Newshttps://chatjimmy.ai being a demo of the "burn the model to an ASIC" approach being sold by Taalas[0], an approach which they use to run Llama 3.1 8B at ~17000 tokens per second.
https://chatjimmy.ai being a demo of the "burn the model to an ASIC" approach being sold by Taalas[0], an approach which they use to run Llama 3.1 8B at ~17000 tokens per second.
Not to downplay their accomplishment but Llama 3.1 8B is a terrible model. It's really outdated at this point. It's cool that they were able to accelerate a model with silicon, but it also feels wasteful since llama 8B is such a useless model?