People are reproducing it and creating GGUFs https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/36atJ2nNjh
replyThe top 3 repos sorted by stars on Huawei's github page are all for quantization. I am not an LLM scientist so I can't tell what the difference is between them, or why they need three different pipelines for model quantization.
replyhttps://huawei-csl.com/blog/macaq/
replyWhy does some HN users seem to prefer GitHub page whenever available at expense of official site? I mean, Huawei is still sanctioned, anything they host third party outside China can disappear at any hour.
I prefer GitHub, because I can see the code and immediately know where to click. Product pages are always full of various marketing shots, videos, etc that just takes more time to parse through.
replyThis is pretty much the reason that if I read about a new product, I generally just go to the Wikipedia page. I just want the no-bullshit version, no "Say hello to blah" video or marketing word salad.
replyIn this particular case I think you'd be pleased with it https://huawei-csl.com/blog/macaq/
replyIt is from their lab in Switzerland, after all.
Looks like many of their repos there have been around for a while. Also not sure why we would sanction free stuff from them
replyWell I'm not a lawyer but are you allowed to provide material support to sanctioned entities?
replyIt’s a commerce department sanction not a treasury department sanction (which would be far more serious).
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replyDid they release any model? Seems good for Strata
replyQwen 3.8 27B has a macaq quant available
replyWhat a project name.
replyProbably intended to reference macaque monkeys.
replyI forgot my French, but isn't it incredibly rude?
replyWhy?
replyI think the immature commenters are referring to the pronunciation being similar to "my cock"
replyAaa, thanks I didn't think of that.
replyCongratulations on not being a total degenerate.
replyIt's also a racial slur in certain languages.
replyIt's also "Roach" in Hebrew (מקק)
replyWhat are those?
replyNo, no, not that.
replyI'd assume the French know something about naming projects in the vein of Coq.
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replyI do not think that macaques would mind.
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