Given our recent focus as a company on fine-tuning and optimization pathways to enable performant LLM inference on CPUs, we will be pausing CV and NLP support for Sparsify Alpha, effective immediately.
We understand that this may be disappointing news for some of you. We are grateful for your feedback and support during the alpha testing phase of Sparsify. We believe that our new focus on LLM fine-tuning and optimization will lead to even more opportunities and value created for our users.
You will still be able to pip install and use Sparsify Alpha for CV and NLP use cases; however, we will no longer be providing bug fixes, prioritizing support, or building new features and integrations for non-LLM flows. We will still be taking open-source contributions for fixes outside of LLMs, but for the near term, our internal team’s focus will be on enabling LLM flows.
We will provide more information about these new efforts in building Sparsify into the best LLM fine-tuning and optimization tool on the market over the coming months.
Thank you again for your support. We look forward to continuing to work with you to develop robust and innovative tools for machine learning. Let us know if you have any questions or feedback with regard to Sparsify!
If you want to try out Sparsify Alpha, [Get started here](https://account.neuralmagic.com/signup).
Want to kick the tires? Read the [Sparsify Quickstart Guide](https://github.com/neuralmagic/sparsify#quickstart-guide).
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_Sparsify release version 1.5.0 intentionally skipped._