[zone411]

Very important to note that this is a base model, not an instruct model. Instruct fine-tuned models are what's useful for chat.

[haolez]

What's the feeling of playing with a powerful base model? Will it just complete the prompt text like a continuation of it?

[MPSimmons]

Generally, yes, it literally just tries to predict the next token again and again and again.

This model is apparently surprisingly good at chat, even though it is a base model, and will take part it it to some extent. It should be really interesting once it's fine-tuned.