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They seem to have good enough general intelligence that missing knowledge is not that big thing. If you are able to have a proper [free search engine], they can do almost anything. Having own local search index about relevant stuff can help a lof if you don’t want to pay for search API.

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But running that fast… with a local RAG? Yeah, it is a very interesting model. Maybe you don’t need a lot of parameters, just a really big local database :)

You can run it with 2x r9700 with 150-200 tokens per second. It is intelligent enough if you just point the docs / whatever for it.

I believe. I run it on my mac M5 pro at like 30t/s with some RAGs and let it work on stuff overnight and it's great. It isn't the same as the big models where things can be more unbounded, but if local models keep progressing there is a universe where a 200-300B model is all most of us will need to stay out of the big tech moats.

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