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Zhang: Llama 405B sees very few enterprise users compared to 70B
“I think at the base time, something like LAMA-Seventy-B is more common. I think LAMA-Seventy-B has released the 400 zero five billion weights, but I think there are just a few users use that.”
Yining Zhang Jan 19, 2025 ▶ 4:39 DeepSeek V3, SGLang, and the state of Open Model Inference in 2025 (Quantization, MoEs, Pricing)
Assertion Supported
Patel: Google TPU v5e is half the size of TPU v5p
“TPUv-V-V-E is, like the new one, but it's mostly, mostly an inference chip. It's a small chip. It's a little bit, it's about half the size of a TPUv-V-V. That chip, you know, you can get very good performance on, like, Of Lama, 70 B inference, right?”
Dylan Patel Dec 5, 2023 ▶ 11:49 The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis
Assertion Partly supported
Biderman: Processing a Wikipedia article in Llama 70B consumes 80GB HBM
“If you take a Lama, a 70 B model, and you load one article from Wikipedia, which is a few tens of kilobytes, and you have the model read this The brain state of the model when reading this few tens of kilobytes is like, 80 gigabytes. 80 gigabytes on, on the HB…”
Dan Biderman Jul 13, 2026 ▶ 22:39 The AI Memory Problem: Why Long Context Isn’t Enough — Dan Biderman, Engram Co-founder & CEO
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