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bigscience-small-testing

Available as managed deployment LLMs bigscience Text gen 1 variants 12k dl/mo

bigscience-small-testing is an open-weight language model from bigscience. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.

What it is

Makerbigscience
TypeLanguage models
TaskText gen
Parameters (lead)16M
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-04-22
Popularity12k downloads / month
LicenceUnknown

About

What bigscience-small-testing is

This model aims to test the conversion between Megatron-LM and transformers. It is a small GPT-2-like model that has been used to debug the script. Use it only for integration tests

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys bigscience-small-testing for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (bigscience-small-testing below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"bigscience-small-testing","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 5M tokens/month currently included with every new account at launch.

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