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March 17, 2024, 8:20 p.m. |

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Grok-1 code and model weights release


xAI have released their Grok-1 model under an Apache 2 license (for both weights and code). It's distributed as a 318.24G torrent file and likely requires 320GB of VRAM to run, so needs some very hefty hardware.


The accompanying blog post (via link) says "Trained from scratch by xAI using a custom training stack on top of JAX and Rust in October 2023", and describes it as a "314B parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 25% …

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