Arctic Instruct

Other chat Free

API ID: snowflake/snowflake-arctic-instruct

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Input Price
Free
/1M tokens
Output Price
Free
/1M tokens

About Arctic Instruct

Arctic is a dense-MoE Hybrid transformer architecture pre-trained from scratch by the Snowflake AI Research Team. Arctic combines a 10B dense transformer model with a residual 128x3.66B MoE MLP resulting in 480B total and 17B active parameters chosen using a top-2 gating. To read more about this model's release, [click here](https://www.snowflake.com/blog/arctic-open-efficient-foundation-language-models-snowflake/).

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Model Specifications

Context Length
4k
Max Output
—
Release Date
2024-04-30
Capabilities
chat
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

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  • Image understanding (needs vision capability)
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OpenAI-compatible SDK 
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="snowflake/snowflake-arctic-instruct",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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