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The new 3B "fully open source" model from AMD (rocm.blogs.amd.com)
submitted 1 month ago by foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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This is again a big win on the red team at least for me. They developed a "fully open" 3B parameters model family trained from scratch on AMD Instinct™ MI300X GPUs.

AMD is excited to announce Instella, a family of fully open state-of-the-art 3-billion-parameter language models (LMs) [...]. Instella models outperform existing fully open models of similar sizes and achieve competitive performance compared to state-of-the-art open-weight models such as Llama-3.2-3B, Gemma-2-2B, and Qwen-2.5-3B [...].

As shown in this image (https://rocm.blogs.amd.com/_images/scaling_perf_instruct.png) this model outperforms current other "fully open" models, coming next to open weight only models.

A step further, thank you AMD.

PS : not doing AMD propaganda but thanks them to help and contribute to the Open Source World.

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Properly open source.

The model, the weighting, the dataset, etc. every part of this seems to be open. One of the very few models that comply with the Open Software Initiative's definition of open source AI.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

OpenCL not mentioned, and so raw hardware level code most likely. Maybe no one else cares, but higher level code means more portability.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What is the link with rocm?

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

AMD uses opencl as its high level API. Nvidia, Intel also supports it. Chinese cards might too. Very few LLMs use high level APIs such as CUDA or OpenCL