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Overview
Cydonia 24B v2.1 is a 24 billion parameter language model developed by TheDrummer, built upon Mistral's 'Small' (2501) foundation model. This version represents a significant fine-tuning effort aimed at refining its linguistic capabilities and creative output.
Key Capabilities
- Enhanced Prose Quality: The model has been specifically tuned to produce higher quality, more nuanced prose.
- Fostered Creativity: It is designed to encourage and generate more imaginative and diverse creative content.
- Adjusted Tone: Fine-tuning included modifications to temper overly positive responses, allowing for a broader emotional range in generated text.
Supported Chat Templates
Cydonia 24B v2.1 supports several chat templates, with Mistral v7 Tekken being the recommended option for optimal performance. Other compatible templates include Metharme (which may require some patching) and Alpaca, which is suggested for story-focused applications.
Good For
- Creative writing and narrative generation.
- Applications requiring nuanced and expressive prose.
- Use cases where a less overtly positive or more balanced emotional tone is desired.