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Here's a glossary to understand this post:

- mixtral-8x7 or 8x7: Open source model by Mistral AI.

- Dolphin: An uncensored version of the mistral model

- 3.5-turbo: GPT-3.5 Turbo, the cheapest API from OpenAI

- 4-series preview OR "4.5 preview": GPT-4 Turbo, the most capable API from OpenAI

- mistral-medium: A new model by Mistral AI that they are only serving through AI. It's in private beta and there's a waiting list to access it.

- Perplexity: A new search engine that is challenging Google by applying LLM to search

- Sama: Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI

- RenTech: Renaissance Technologies, a secretive hedge fund known for delivering impressive returns improving on the work of others

- DPO: Direct Preference Optimization. It is a technique that leverages AI feedback to optimize the performance of smaller, open-source models like Zephyr-7B1.

- Alibi: a Python library that provides tools for machine learning model inspection and interpretation2. It can be used to explain the predictions of any black-box model, including LLMs.

- Sliding window: a type of attention mechanism introduced by Mistral-7B3. It is used to support longer sequences in LLMs.

- Modern mixtures: The process of using multiple models together, like "mixtral" is a mixture of several mistral models.

- TheBloke: Open source developer that is very quick at quantizing all new models that come out

- Quantize: Decreasing memory requirements of a new model by decreasing the precision of weights, typically with just minor performance degradation.

- 4070 Super: NVIDIA 4070 Super, new graphics card announced just a week ago

- MSFT: Microsoft

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