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

*Quantization is specific to the inference provider and the model may be offered with different quantization levels by other providers.

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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?"
    }
  ]
}'

import os
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/chat/completions",
    headers={
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OXEN_API_KEY']}",
    },
    json={
        "model": "ministral-8b-latest",
        "messages": [
            {
                "role": "user",
                "content": "Hello, what can you do?"
            }
        ]
    },
)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json())

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
}'

import os
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/chat/completions",
    headers={
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OXEN_API_KEY']}",
    },
    json={
        "model": "ministral-8b-latest",
        "messages": [
            {
                "role": "user",
                "content": "Hello, what can you do?"
            }
        ],
        "temperature": 0.7,
        "max_tokens": 1024,
        "stream": false
    },
)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json())

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
}'

import os
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/chat/completions",
    headers={
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OXEN_API_KEY']}",
    },
    json={
        "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
    },
)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json())

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curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/models/ministral-8b-latest

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