Getting Started with Mistral-7b-Instruct-v0.1

The mistral-7b-instruct-v0.1 model is a 7B instruction-tuned LLM released by Mistral AI. It is a true open source model licensed under Apache 2.0. It has a context length of 8,000 tokens and performs on par with 13B llama2 models. It is great for generating prose, summarizing documents, and writing code.

In this article, we will cover

• How to run mistral-7b-instruct-v0.1 on your own device
• How to create an OpenAI-compatible API service for mistral-7b-instruct-v0.1

We will use the Rust + Wasm stack to develop and deploy applications for this model. There is no complex Python packages or C++ toolchains to install! See why we choose this tech stack.

Run the model on your own device

Step 1: Install WasmEdge via the following command line.

curl -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WasmEdge/WasmEdge/master/utils/install.sh | bash -s -- --plugins wasmedge_rustls wasi_nn-ggml

Step 2: Download the model GGUF file. It may take a long time, since the size of the model is several GBs.

https://huggingface.co/second-state/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1-GGUF/resolve/main/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.1.Q5_K_M.gguf

Step 3: Download a cross-platform portable Wasm file for the chat app. The application allows you to chat with the model on the command line. The Rust source code for the app is here.

curl -LO https://github.com/LlamaEdge/LlamaEdge/releases/latest/download/llama-chat.wasm

That's it. You can chat with the model in the terminal by entering the following command.

wasmedge --dir .:. --nn-preload default:GGML:AUTO:mistral-7b-instruct-v0.1.Q5_K_M.gguf llama-chat.wasm -p mistral-instruct-v0.1

The portable Wasm app automatically takes advantage of the hardware accelerators (eg GPUs) I have on the device.

On my Mac M1 32G memory device, it clocks in at about 20.71 tokens per second.

[USER]:
What is the capital of France?

[ASSITANT]:
The capital of France is Paris.

[USER]:

Create an OpenAI-compatible API service

An OpenAI-compatible web API allows the model to work with a large ecosystem of LLM tools and agent frameworks such as flows.network, LangChain, and LlamaIndex.

Download an API server app. It is also a cross-platform portable Wasm app that can run on many CPU and GPU devices.

curl -LO https://github.com/LlamaEdge/LlamaEdge/releases/latest/download/llama-api-server.wasm

Then, use the following command lines to start an API server for the model.

wasmedge --dir .:. --nn-preload default:GGML:AUTO:mistral-7b-instruct-v0.1.Q5_K_M.gguf llama-api-server.wasm -p mistral-instruct

From another terminal, you can interact with the API server using curl.

curl -X POST http://0.0.0.0:8080/v1/chat/completions -H 'accept:application/json' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"messages":[{"role":"system", "content":"You are a helpful AI assistant"}, {"role":"user", "content":"What is the capital of France?"}], "model":"mistral-7b-instruct-v0.1"}'

That’s all. WasmEdge is the easiest, fastest, and safest way to run LLM applications. Give it a try!

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