[alsodumb]

Abacus always seemed to me like a 'we got a lot of VC money with inflated claims now we gotta show we do everything' company. I don't really understand what they do, they seem to offer everything but I don't see anyone talking about using their offerings in the real-world. Ever. The only time I see mentions of the company are when I am targeted with ads or promoted posts of the founder.

[woadwarrior01]

Their CEO made a post[1] on Twitter claiming to have invented "the world's first commercially usable 32K long-context open-source LLM", which IMO is pure hyperbole.

It looks like the first OSS 13B Llama 2 based 32k token context model[2], but the first OSS and commercially usable 32k token context model was a 7B Llama 2 based model[3] from Together AI, who beat them by about a week[4].

[1]: https://twitter.com/bindureddy/status/1694126931174977906

[2]: https://huggingface.co/abacusai/Giraffe-v2-13b-32k

[3]: https://huggingface.co/togethercomputer/Llama-2-7B-32K-Instr...

[4]: https://twitter.com/togethercompute/status/16925744231638470...