Ministral 8B - Oxen.ai

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Model ID: ministral-8b-latest Ministral 8B is a Small Language Model (SLM) designed for edge computing and on-device applications. It excels in efficient inference, knowledge retrieval, common-sense reasoning, and multilingual understanding, making it ideal for low-latency tasks and resource-constrained environments. Some other noteworthy features of Ministral 8B include native function calling support and interleaved sliding-window attention for faster and memory-efficient processing.

Metric	Value
Parameter Count	8 billion
Mixture of Experts	No
Context Length	128,000 tokens
Multilingual	Yes
Quantized*	Unknown

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curl -X POST https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "ministral-8b-latest",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Hello, what can you do?"
    }
  ]
}'

curl -X POST https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "ministral-8b-latest",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Hello, what can you do?"
    }
  ],
  "temperature": 0.7,
  "max_tokens": 1024,
  "stream": false
}'

curl -X POST https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "ministral-8b-latest",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Hello, what can you do?"
    }
  ],
  "temperature": 0.7,
  "max_tokens": 1024,
  "stream": false,
  "top_p": 1.0
}'

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