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Chapter 2. Updating a model

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI allows you to upgrade LLMs that you locally downloaded to the latest version of the model.

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Table 2.1. RHEL AI version 1.5 LLM support
ModelDescriptionVersion introducedNVIDIAAMDIntel

granite-3.1-8b-starter-v2.1

Version 2 of the Granite 3.1 base model for customizing and fine-tuning

1.5.1

Default

Default

Not available

granite-3.1-8b-lab-v2.1

Version 2 of the Granite 3.1 model for inference serving

1.5.1

Default

Default

Not available

granite-3.1-8b-starter-v2

Version 2 of the Granite 3.1 base model for customizing and fine-tuning

1.5

Available

Available

Default

granite-3.1-8b-lab-v2

Version 2 of the Granite 3.1 model for inference serving

1.5.1

Available

Available

Default

2.1. Updating the models
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You can upgrade your local models to the latest version of the model using the RHEL AI tool set.

Prerequisites

  • You installed the InstructLab tools with the bootable container image.
  • You initialized InstructLab and can use the ilab CLI.
  • You downloaded LLMs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI.
  • You created a Red Hat registry account and logged in on your machine.

Procedure

  1. You can upgrade any model by running the following command. 

    $ ilab model download --repository <repository_and_model> --release latest
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    where:

    <repository_and_model>
    Specifies the repository location of the model as well as the model. You can access the models from the registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/ repository.
    <release>
    Specifies the version of the model. Set to latest, or a specific version of the model, for the most up to date version of the model.

Verification

  1. You can view all the downloaded models on your system with the following command: 

    $ ilab model list
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