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Meta Llama 3.3 and Llama 4 perform poorly on agent benchmarks
“Another, of course, the other surprise was that all the Lama models were not performing well on our benchmark. 3.3 and even the Lama four all were really performing extremely poor.”
Pratik Bhavsar Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 10:08 ⚡️Ranking Agentic LLMs — Pratik Bhavsar, Galileo
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Ben Allal: Hugging Face SmolLM2-1.7B outperforms Llama 3.2 models
“So it's a series of three models, which are the best in class in each model size. For example, our 1.7 B model outperforms Lama one B and also .2.”
Loubna Ben Allal Dec 24, 2024 ▶ 22:31 Best of 2024: Synthetic Data / Smol Models, Loubna Ben Allal, HuggingFace [LS Live! @ NeurIPS 2024]
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Cerebras WSE-3 runs Llama inference 70x faster than NVIDIA GPUs
“Cerebris came out that the wafer scale engine three can serve llama 70 B at 2.1 thousand sorry, 202,100 tokens per second and serves llama four or five B at nearly 1000 tokens per second. So this, you know, to give you an understanding, like this is about 70 t…”
Sarah Chieng Dec 7, 2024 ▶ 3:06 [Paper Club] Weight Streaming on Wafer-Scale Clusters (w/ Sarah Chieng of Cerebras)
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Patel: Hugging Face libraries achieve only 15% MBU for inference
“Hugging Face's libraries are actually very inefficient, like incredibly inefficient for inference. You get like, 15% MBU on, on, on, on some configurations, like eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, 100, and LLAMA-seventy-beat, you get like, 15%, which is…”
Dylan Patel Dec 5, 2023 ▶ 18:40 The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis
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Soldani: Llama and Qwen models fail OSI open source AI definition
“Under this definition, for example, Lama or some of the Quen models are not open source because the license says you can, you can't use this model for this, or it says if you use this model, you have to name the output this way or derivative needs to be named …”
Luca Soldani Dec 23, 2024 ▶ 7:07 Best of 2024: Open Models [LS LIVE! at NeurIPS 2024]
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Angelopoulos: The Chatbot Arena leaderboard is currently not an apples-to-apples comparison
“None of the leaderboard currently is apples to apples, because you have, like, Gemini Flash, you have, you know, all sorts of tiny models, like Llama Like, eight B and four or five B are not apples to apples.”
Anastasios Angelopoulos Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 28:03 In the Arena: How LMSys changed LLM Benchmarking Forever
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DeepSeek 128k context fits in 8GB KV cache versus Llama's 80GB
“For context like the total I think the total context length of DeepSeq is a 128,000 tokens, or it might be 256,000 with rope extension. That entire context, I think it's a 128,000, fits into eight gigabytes. And previously context, like I think the Lama four o…”
Kyle Kranen Mar 8, 2026 ▶ 52:08 Agent Inference at the "Speed of Light" — How NVIDIA moves like a $4.3 Trillion Startup
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Ben Allal: LLaMA 3 used 15x more pre-training tokens than original LLaMA
“LAMA was trained on one trillion tokens, but LAMA-III was trained on 15 trillion tokens.”
Loubna Ben Allal Dec 24, 2024 ▶ 20:33 Best of 2024: Synthetic Data / Smol Models, Loubna Ben Allal, HuggingFace [LS Live! @ NeurIPS 2024]
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Patel: Running LLaMA-70B at reading speed requires 2.1 TB/s memory bandwidth
“Hey, to run Llama's seventy billion requires two terabytes a second of memory bandwidth, 2.1, at reading, human reading speed.”
Dylan Patel Dec 5, 2023 ▶ 26:06 The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis
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