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Which open-source LLM are you currently using for chatbot development, and why?

A Hugging Face forum user asked which open-source large language model the community prefers for chatbot development and why, sparking discussion on model selection criteria.

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Which open-source LLM are you currently using for chatbot development, and why?
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