Is your confidence rooted in quantified testing, or just vibes? I'm sure you're right, just curious. (My reasoning: running inference at full fp16 is borderline wasteful. You can use q7 with almost no loss.)
I know some fancy benchmark says "almost no loss", but... subjectively, there is a clear quality loss. You can try for yourself, I can run Mixtral at 5.8bpw and there is an OBVIOUS difference between what I have seen from Groq and my local setup beside the sound barrier shattering speed of Groq. I didn't know Mixtral could output such nice code and I have used it A LOT locally.
Yes, but this gray area underperformance that lets them claim they are the cheapest and fastest appeals to people for whom qualitative (aka real) performance doesn’t matter.
