Ollama reportedly served a large language model with a 40,000-token context window at only 4,000 tokens without notifying users. This was discussed in a Hacker News thread with limited engagement.
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Ollama serves 40k-context LLM at 4k context silently
Ollama reportedly served a large language model with a 40,000-token context window at only 4,000 tokens without notifying users. This was discussed in a Hacker News thread with limited engagement.
Context window size is critical for LLM performance and user expectations; silently reducing it may impact model outputs and trust. Transparency about model capabilities is important for open source LLM adoption.
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