12/19/2023: Everybody Loves OpenRouter

**OpenRouter** offers an easy OpenAI-compatible proxy for **Mixtral-8x7b-instruct**. Discord discussions highlight **GPT-4** performance and usability issues compared to **GPT-3.5**, including memory management and accessibility problems. Users debate local language models versus OpenAI API usage, with mentions of **Dolphin 2.0 Mistral 7B** and **Google's video generation project**. Prompt engineering and custom instructions for GPT models are also key topics. Concerns about censorship on models like **Gemini** and translation tool preferences such as **DeepL** were discussed.