The open source nature of Step3 provides a cost-effective solution:
- Zero licensing costs: Apache 2.0 protocol allows free commercial use without royalty restrictions.
- Hardware savings: block-fp8 format enables a single server (4*A800) to support millions of requests per day
- Deployment Simplification: Provide a complete GitHub Documentation cap (a poem) Discord Communitybe in favor of
Implementation Path:
- Download model weights from Hugging Face (~210GB)
- on the basis of
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Kubernetes Configuration Templates for Catalogs Build a Cluster - Performance tracking using the supplied Prometheus monitoring template
Practices have shown to reduce TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) by 801 TP3T compared to comparable commercial solutions.
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