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Fireworks: Function Calling Model and API

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If you're looking for open-source function calling: Checkout Functionary: https://github.com/MeetKai/functionary/

It's MIT licensed. Supports both CPU and GPU

Interesting but if you're expecting an actual OSS model, it's only usable through their API.

Is there any OSS model that is good for function calling? Gorilla LLM comes to mind. Not sure if it's actually good at specifically the function calling api though.

Yes, Functionary: https://github.com/MeetKai/functionary/ MIT Licensed

Its actively maintained as open-source. You can even run it with llama.cpp

Mixtral and some Mistral-7b fine-tunes seem to do alright on function calling.

This blog post is literally unable to be read due to the medium spam that blocks you from reading the moment the page loads. I have no idea why people use medium still

use an ad-blocker

I'm using an ad blocker, the problem isn't really an ad but a big box asking you to sign up to Medium.

I could add this to my uBlock rules but really - does a call to action need to take up 40% of the readable space on the page, more on smaller monitors? I mean it's probably deliberate and a dark pattern in the hopes that people will sign up just to stop it showing up every time they visit Medium.

You can dismiss that box by clicking a small link that says something "No,, I just want to read". I'm so used to it that I stopped noticing how I do it.

Apparently it leads to enough registrations that they choose to keep it :(

https://app.fireworks.ai/blog/fireworks-raises-the-quality-b...

Agree with this sentiment. The argument I’ve heard for why people use Medium (rather than say a custom blog site or ghost or Substack) is: SEO is better with Medium.

Please stop posting in Medium, it's so annoying.

Medium lets you make passive income from posts and even pyramid schemes subscriptions which joined for your article, so you get a payment for every month they remain subscribed. It is very hard to just quit using medium.

If you have any firsthand experience, could you tell what is the order of magnitude of such payments? $1/mo? $10? $100?

Not first hand, but I think you get a bit less than 2.5 usd/mo per ongoing sub. So it's on the lower end.

That seems pretty high to me, <10 thousand subs is all it takes to replace the average income

Don't forget that these subs aren't like YouTube subs. They are shown that annoying popup while visiting your blog page, and they complete their subscription just to see what you've published. And they have to keep on paying afterwards.

I get that for people trying to make a living off of their content, but for companies issuing a press release, nine times out of ten I’ll bounce before clicking it away.

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