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But who is the target group?

Last time only some groups of enthusiasts were willing to work through bugs to even run the buggy release of Gemma

Surely nobody runs this in production

The press and decision makers without technical knowledge are the target group, it doesn’t matter if it’s used in production or not. They need a locally deployable model to keep up with enterprises to risk averse to put their data into the cloud and also don’t care that their shitty homegrown ChatGPT replacement barely works. It’s a checkbox.

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