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bloomz-petals

Available as managed deployment LLMs bigscience Text gen 1 variants 37 dl/mo

bloomz-petals 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
Runs withtransformers
Released2023-01-16
Popularity37 downloads / month
LicenceUnknown

About

What bloomz-petals is

This model is a version of bigscience/bloomz post-processed to be run at home using the Petals swarm.

Please check out:

  • The original model card to learn about the model's capabilities, specifications, and terms of use.
  • The Petals repository to learn how to install Petals and run this model over the Petals swarm.

We provide minimal code examples below.

Using the model

from petals import DistributedBloomForCausalLM

model = DistributedBloomForCausalLM.from_pretrained("bigscience/bloomz-petals")
# Embeddings & prompts are on your device, BLOOM blocks are distributed across the Internet

inputs = tokenizer("A cat sat", return_tensors="pt")["input_ids"]
outputs = model.generate(inputs, max_new_tokens=5)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0]))  # A cat sat on a mat...

Serving the model blocks

python -m petals.cli.run_server bigscience/bloomz-petals

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 bloomz-petals for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (bloomz-petals 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":"bloomz-petals","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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