Show HN: Llama-dl – high-speed download of LLaMA, Facebook's 65B GPT model

It's been enough time since this leaked, so my question is why aren't there blog posts already of people blowing their $300 of starter credit with ${cloud_provider} on a few hours' experimentation running inference on this 65B model?

Edit: I read the linked README.

> I was impatient and curious to try to run 65B on an 8xA100 cluster

Well?

The compute necessary to run 65B naively was only available on AWS (and perhaps Azure, I don't work with them) and the required instance types have been unavailable to the public recently (it seems everyone had the same idea to hop on this and try to run it). In my other post here [1], the memory requirements have been lowered through other work, and it should now be possible to run the 65B on a provider like CoreWeave.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35028738

Are you sure about that? I can't remember where I saw the table of memory requirements, but I'm sure some of the larger instances here [1] will surely be able to cope (assuming they're available!)

Oracle gives you a $300 free trial, which equates to running BM.GPU4.8 for over 10 hours - enough for a focused day of prompting

[1] https://www.oracle.com/cloud/compute/gpu/

> Are you sure about that?

I'm not. The only way to know it is to try :) thank you for the link!

You only get a single month-long window to spend the credit! And I'm sure not going to spend any of my own money on prompting experiments.

I might be suffering from FOMO to some degree, I've just got to tell myself that this won't have been the only time model weights get leaked!

> And I'm sure not going to spend any of my own money on prompting experiments.

This certainly sounds a lot like whining that others aren’t doing the work you yourself don’t want to do.