Running LLMs outside a datacenter is usually not a realistic prospect. Nvidia and Mistral are letting PC users run a new model that does work locally.

Mistral NeMo 12B is the name of the new AI model, presented this week by Nvidia and Mistral. “We are fortunate to collaborate with the NVIDIA team, leveraging their top-tier hardware and software,” said Guillaume Lample, cofounder and chief scientist of Mistral AI. “Together, we have developed a model with unprecedented accuracy, flexibility, high-efficiency and enterprise-grade support and security thanks to NVIDIA AI Enterprise deployment.”

The promise of the new AI model is significant. Whereas previous LLMs were tied to datacenters, Mistral NeMo 12B moves to workstations. And it does this without sacrificing performance, or well, that’s the promise.

  • @j4k3English
    3•2 months ago

    Yeah. It is different for laptops. The 3080 market nomenclature is all over the place. Look up the model number to confirm the manufacturer’s specs. Linux hardware probe should list them too. It has been a year since I did all of my research but IIRC the mobile version only came with “3080” 8 GB and “3080Ti” 16 GB. I have the 16 GB and can confirm it is a thing. That is the largest GPU in a laptop for the last generation RTX 3xxx stuff. The largest AMD sold at the same time is a 12 GB 6850 IIRC but the AMD 6k series doesn’t (did not at the time) have the same HIPS ROCM support as the AMD 7k series new stuff (not sure if it has changed).

    The following is an old pic from a year ago. The left side is tiled into 3 terminals, top is the running model inference, middle is htop, bottom is my GPU monitoring script that also shows the total memory available. This was also a 70b Llama 2 model (GGML and 4bit quantization)