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Orbit by Mozilla (orbitbymozilla.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Orbit currently uses a version of Mistral LLM (Mistral 7B) that is locally hosted on Mozilla’s Google Cloud Platform instance.

So it connects to Google Cloud for this? What does that mean "locally", if its a Cloud Platform? And what does that mean "Mozilla's", if its Google? I'm a bit confused with this sentence.

Does it download and execute it locally offline or does it send the data to Google Cloud Platform?? The page is not clear about this and I searched for an answer. I have the same Mistral 7B model that I downloaded from HuggingFace website and can use offline with a specific GUI application. It would be nice if I could Firefox point to that file instead.

Otherwise, this does not look very promising and I wouldn't trust it at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Google Distributed Cloud allows you to run Google Cloud Platform locally in your own datacenter. They can deploy apps to that infrastructure and use the cloud console for management, or even use normal kubernetes tools for it.

Couldn’t say if that’s what they’re actually doing, but running Google Cloud locally is a thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for the clarification. That's interesting indeed. Unfortunately Mozilla is so dependent on Google.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I agree. I’d prefer they just run their own Kubernetes and manage it themselves. Maybe throw some business at Red Hat if they need help with it.