Just want to mention that I've been pulling down and using DwarfStar locally and it's incredible. I actually have it running on my personal macbook m4 max with 128gb of ram and I am running the server to share it through tailscale with my work laptop and just have pi running there.
The long context reasoning is something I haven't even seen in frontier models - I was running at 124k tokens earlier and it was still just buzzing along with no issues or fatigue.
I am amazed at how well it works, I'm using it right now for some pretty complex frontend work, and it is much much faster than, for example running a dense 27b or 31b model (like qwen or gemma) for me (The benefits of MoE) - but the long context capabilities have been what have been absolutely flooring me.
Super excited about this project and hope Antirez can keep himself from burning out - i've been following the repo pretty closely and there are a ton of PR's flooding in and it seems like he's had to do a lot of filtering out of slop code.
I got this running on a 128GB M5 the other day - pretty painless, model runs in about 80GB of RAM and it seemed to be very capable at writing code and tool execution.
I don't want to be a jerk but 31t/s prefill is basically unusable in an agentic situation. A mere 10k in context and you're sitting there for 5+ minutes before the first token is generated.
The long context reasoning is something I haven't even seen in frontier models - I was running at 124k tokens earlier and it was still just buzzing along with no issues or fatigue.
I am amazed at how well it works, I'm using it right now for some pretty complex frontend work, and it is much much faster than, for example running a dense 27b or 31b model (like qwen or gemma) for me (The benefits of MoE) - but the long context capabilities have been what have been absolutely flooring me.
Super excited about this project and hope Antirez can keep himself from burning out - i've been following the repo pretty closely and there are a ton of PR's flooding in and it seems like he's had to do a lot of filtering out of slop code.
Also have enjoyed playing with https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/nanowhale-100m-base (but early days for me understanding this space)