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Comment by jmorgan | Hacker News Reader

The `mixtral:8x22b` tag still points to the text completion model – instruct is on the way, sorry!

Update: mixtral:8x22b now points to the instruct model:

  ollama pull mixtral:8x22b
  ollama run mixtral:8x22b

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Wait. Isn't it a breaking change to change the underlying model like this? Wouldn't people start running into consistency issues in production? (given ollama appears to be oriented towards backend use)

Sure, in theory. But if you move so fast that you already are running the base 8x22B model from last week, you can easily fix this.

I've long thought that if you want reproducibility and reliability, you need to pin your deps.

So, IMO, the change is very much worth it to reduce confusion going forward.

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