# Upstage — How to use ‘Solar’ LLM vol. 1 - Tips for writing an effective project proposal

- Company: Upstage (upstage.ai)
- Announced: 2024-03-13
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://www.upstage.ai/blog/en/solar-llm-for-writing-project-proposals
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18486-how-to-use-solar-llm-vol-1-tips-for-writing-an-effective-project-proposal
- Subject: Solar Pro / Solar Mini
- Models affected: Solar
- Pricing: Solar API Beta offers several compelling features 'for free' until its beta promotion ends on March 31st 2024.

Upstage published a guide on using its Solar LLM for writing project proposals, including outlining, revising technical writing, and generating presentations. The post highlights Solar's performance comparable to GPT-3.5 with fewer parameters and 2.5 times faster speeds, and notes that the Solar API Beta is free until March 31, 2024.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.upstage.ai/blog/en/solar-llm-for-writing-project-proposals:

> Solar also outshined its competitors in a range of benchmarks, demonstrating its expertise in downsizing LLMs without compromising performance.

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