Strengths
- Extremely large 256K context window.
- Hybrid architecture offers a good balance of performance and efficiency.
- Open-source and available for private deployments.
- High throughput and low latency.
Limitations
- The base model is not instruction-tuned and requires fine-tuning for specific applications.
- Requires specific hardware (CUDA) and software dependencies to run optimized kernels.
- Relatively new model, so the community and tooling are still growing.