Yi

by 01.AI

About the model:

The Yi series models are the next generation of open-source large language models trained from scratch by 01.AI. Targeted as a bilingual language model and trained on 3T multilingual corpus.

Model type:

Text

Model performance class:

Full

Link to the model:

https://huggingface.co/01-ai/Yi-1.5-34B-Chat-16K

Base models:

Yi-34B

End model:

Yi-1.5-34B-Chat-16K

End model license:

Apache-2.0

About the organisation:

Chinese AI start-up.

Link to the organisation:

https://www.01.ai/

Model release date:

May 2024

Availability

Base Model Data

Training data for base model undocumented, though preprint mentions CommonCrawl as one source

End User Model Data

No end model data sources found.

Base Model Weights

Base model weights shared via HuggingFace

https://huggingface.co/01-ai/Yi-34B

End User Model Weights

Instruction-tuned weights shared via HuggingFace.

https://huggingface.co/01-ai/Yi-1.5-34B-Chat-16K

Training Code

repository contains some code for demos and for instruction tuning, but only sparse examples of code for initial training and model architecture

https://github.com/01-ai/Yi

Documentation

Code Documentation

Inference and fine-tuning code is documented, training code is not documented.

https://github.com/01-ai/Yi/

Hardware Architecture

Model architecture described in paper.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.04652

Preprint

Preprint provides some info on pretraining data (CommonCrawl) but none on instruction tuning dataset.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04652

Paper

No peer-reviewed paper found

Modelcard

Model card provides limited relevant information.

https://huggingface.co/01-ai/Yi-1.5-34B-Chat-16K

Datasheet

No data sheets found.

Access

Package

Model available on Ollama.

https://ollama.com/library/yi

API and Meta Prompts

Model is gated and commercially available.

https://platform.01.ai/docs

Licenses

Model licensed under Apache 2.0

https://huggingface.co/01-ai/Yi-1.5-34B-Chat-16K

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