joe, Last week, Meta announced Llama 3. Thanks to Ollama, you can run it pretty easily. There are 8b and 70b variants available. There are also pre-trained or instruction-tuned variants available. I am not seeing it on the Hugging Face Leader Board yet but the bit that I have played around with it has been promising.
Here are two basic test questions:
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