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Portugal releases Amalia, a new 9B parameter LLM

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Portugal has launched its own large language model named Amalia, featuring a 9-billion parameter size. The model is available under the Apache 2.0 license and has been released on Hugging Face with both SFT and DPO versions. While specific coding benchmarks are not yet available, the release highlights Portugal's growing potential in the AI sector. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates national-level AI development capabilities and provides a new open-source model for researchers.

RANK_REASON Release of a new LLM from a country, not a major AI lab. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/EveningIncrease7579 ·

    Portugal just released their own LLM Amalia (9B)!

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