mii-llm, an open-source AI lab, has released Zagreus-0.4B-por, a small bilingual Portuguese-English language model with approximately 400 million parameters. The model was trained from scratch on a corpus of open datasets and is intended as a foundation for further development, such as instruction tuning or creating domain-specific assistants. While its benchmark performance on Portuguese evaluations is promising for its size, the release emphasizes its role as an open base model for research and lightweight applications. AI
IMPACT Provides a foundational model for Portuguese NLP research and lightweight applications.
RANK_REASON Release of a small, open-source language model from a non-frontier lab. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]
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