Now, the same feeling might have been felt by the open-source community as Abacus.ai has released Smaug, a fine-tuned version of Qwen_72B by Alibaba that is unequivocally the new open-source king, and the first open-source model in history to reach an average of 80 points across benchmarks. And although Alibaba is the one who grants the license (it's not a truly open license like Apache 2.0) it's fairly permissive, meaning you only have to request permission to use it commercially if your product has more than 100 million users. As you probably know, LLaMa is a family of pre-trained generative transformers (meaning they are the equivalent of GPT to OpenAI or Gemini to Google) that are widely considered the best open-source base models in the industry. In the meantime, nothing beats Smaug in the world of open-source and, incredibly, it manages to beat some of the best proprietary models in the world too, including Gemini Pro from Google (in some benchmarks) and Mistral-Medium from...
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