[r/LocalLLaMA] [RELEASE] New model - Apex 1.6 Instruct 350M - my most powerful chat model 🚀

Summary

A developer on r/LocalLLaMA has released Apex 1.6 Instruct 350M, claiming it to be their most powerful chat model to date. This improvement stems from a refined finetuning process, utilizing a 2:1 ratio of Alpaca-Cleaned instruction data to Fineweb-Edu-10BT pretraining data, which enhanced its world knowledge. This offers an incrementally more capable small model for local AI enthusiasts.

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