News

Current Status

All services are operational. Occasional service interruptions may occur as we adjust system configuration.

Recent Updates

Nov 8th, 2024

  • Upgraded Claude Haiku to new 3.5 release. Updated pricing for API use.
  • Fixed low constrast issue in splash screen image when dark mode enabled.

Oct 31st, 2024

  • Upgraded CBorg Chat to Librechat v0.7.5
  • Improved layout of login page on mobile devices
  • Fixed icons and app name for CBorg Chat installable PWA

Oct 25th, 2024

  • Claude Sonnet 3.5 upgraded to the newly released v2 model.
  • Endpoint for Anthropic Claude models on CBorg Chat is changed to AWS Bedrock for improved contract terms.

Oct 24th, 2024

  • Downtime for power systems upgrades has been postponed. New dates will be announced in the coming weeks.

Oct 15th, 2024

  • OpenAI o1 Mini and o1 Preview are available on CBorg Chat via a “streaming mode” middleware adapter
  • LBL-hosted fill-in-the-middle (FIM) code completion model fixed and changed to Starcoder 7B
  • Fixed a bug with code actions for VSCode Continue plugin when using LBL-hosted CBorg Coder - Continue users should update their config.json.

Oct 11th, 2024

  • o1-mini and o1-preview are available on the CBorg API service.
  • Removed ChatGPT 3.5 from API and CBorg Chat

Oct 4th, 2024

  • Added new CBorg Vision model based on Meta Llama 3.2 90B Vision.
  • Integrated Wolfram|Alpha into CBorg Chat.
  • Deployed new self-managed API Key Manager, enabling users to create and manage their own API keys.

September 19th, 2024

  • Underlying model for CBorg Chat and CBorg Coder changed to Llama 3.1 405b (FP8). Added experimental “CBorg Deepthought” model - based on Chain-of-Thought reasoning prompt. Fixed centering of text in CBorg logo.

September 9th, 2024

  • CBorg Vision model changed to Phi 3.5 with vision support - it can describe images and read text. VS Code ‘Continue’ support is now available in early beta for API users.

August 26th, 2024

  • Lab-hosted models have been renamed with generic “CBorg” naming; underlying model has been replaced from Llama 3.1 to Mistral Large 2047 (licensed for non-commercial use). Added “Cborg Coder” (also based on Mistral Large with customized system message) and “Cborg Nano” (based on Microsoft Phi 3.5 - lightweight model for summarization and extraction tasks).

August 24th, 2024

  • Google Gemini models are now available on the API service.

August 6th, 2024

  • Low cost ChatGPT 4o-mini with regional deployment on Azure cloud. Implemented performance improvements to self-hosted chat models: Llama 3.1 and Command R+. New Lab-hosted embedding model lbl/nomic-embed-text now available.

July 31st, 2024

  • The default temperature of models has been adjusted to 0.5. To customize the behavior of chat models please use a user preset.

July 30th, 2024

  • CBORG Chat now supports RAG using CSV, TXT and PDF files.

July 25th, 2024

  • Meta Llama 3 70B has been upgraded to Meta Llama 3.1 405B.

July 24th, 2024

  • Access to Anthropic Claude through the API service is now working. ChatGPT-4o endpoint bandwidth was increased to accomodate user demand.

July 2nd, 2024

June 24th, 2024

June 17th, 2024

  • Added LBNL-hosted embedding models e5-large-v2 and NV-Embed-v1, a large 4096-dimension embedding model with a leading position on the MTEB Leaderboard.

June 13th, 2024

  • Added graceful failover to LBNL-hosted models in event of server offline
  • Corrected incorrect configuration of cost-per-token setting in LBNL-hosted Command R+

June 12th, 2024

  • LBNL-Hosted Llama-3 70B is now running on Nvidia H100 node for increased performance
  • Custom chat icons have been provided for LBNL-hosted models

June 7th, 2024

  • Removed support for ChatGPT 4 (legacy model), replaced by GPT-4o
  • Removed support for Google Gemini 1.0 Pro, replaced by Gemini 1.5 Flash and Gemini 1.5 Pro
  • Adjusted context window for LBNL-hosted Command R+ to 80K tokens per system memory constraints
  • Adjusted maximum context length for commercial models to reasonable limits for chat use to control costs
  • Improved model selection drop-down list with model descriptions

June 6th, 2024

  • Added support for ChatGPT 4o
  • Added support for Google Gemini 1.5 Flash and Google Gemini 1.5 Pro
  • Fixed Anthropic Claude endpoints
  • Added support for Anthropic Claude Opus