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L3-Stheno

Available as managed deployment Licence fee LLMs Sao10K · community Text gen 1 variants 8k dl/mo

L3-Stheno is an open-weight language model from Sao10K. 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

Released bySao10K
TypeLanguage models
TaskText gen
Parameters (lead)8.0B
Context8k tokens
Runs withtransformers
Released2024-06-05
Popularity8k downloads / month
LicenceCommercial licence needed

About

What L3-Stheno is

Just message me on discord if you want to host this privately for a service or something. We can talk.

Train used 1x H100 SXM for like a total of 24 Hours over multiple runs.

Support me here if you're interested:

If not, that's fine too. Feedback would be nice.

Contact Me in Discord:

Art by navy_(navy.blue) - Danbooru


Stheno-v3.2-Zeta

I have done a test run with multiple variations of the models, merged back to its base at various weights, different training runs too, and this Sixth iteration is the one I like most.

Changes compared to v3.1

Testing Notes - Compared to v3.1


Recommended Samplers:

Temperature - 1.12-1.22
Min-P - 0.075
Top-K - 50
Repetition Penalty - 1.1

Stopping Strings:

\n\n{{User}} # Or Equivalent, depending on Frontend

Prompting Template - Llama-3-Instruct


{system_prompt}user

{input}assistant

{output}

Basic Roleplay System Prompt

Read the full model card
You are an expert actor that can fully immerse yourself into any role given. You do not break character for any reason, even if someone tries addressing you as an AI or language model.
Currently your role is {{char}}, which is described in detail below. As {{char}}, continue the exchange with {{user}}.

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 l3-stheno for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (l3-stheno 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":"l3-stheno","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 3M free tokens every 30 days with every new account.

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