CrowdGPT v2.6 released as a collaboratively trained LLM
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CrowdGPT v2.6 is a "massive update" to a community project where the model is trained collaboratively, posted to r/LocalLLaMA a week after the original CrowdGPT release. The post promises details on what's new further down the thread.
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