baichuan-inc/Baichuan-13B resource

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Baichuan-13B is an open-source, commercially usable 13-billion-parameter large language model from Baichuan Intelligence, released as both a pre-trained base model and an aligned chat model. It is bilingual (Chinese/English), trained on 1.4 trillion tokens, and ships with int8/int4 quantized versions runnable on consumer GPUs like the RTX 3090.

Use cases

• run a bilingual chinese-english chat llm locally
• download an open-source 13b base model for fine-tuning
• deploy a quantized llm on a consumer gpu
• benchmark chinese language model performance on ceval and mmlu
• self-host a chatgpt-style assistant
• fine-tune a commercially usable open llm

When to choose

• you need a strong open 13B model with good Chinese performance
• you want both a pre-trained base and an aligned chat model
• you need int8/int4 quantization to fit consumer GPUs
• you need a permissively licensed model for commercial use (with approval)

When to avoid

• you need the latest capabilities - Baichuan 2 supersedes this model
• you need multilingual support beyond Chinese and English
• you need a long context window beyond 4096 tokens
• you want commercial use without applying for a license

Facets

learning-resource · maturity maintenance

llm-inference llm-training chatbot large-language-models artificial-intelligence python open-weights chinese-english-bilingual quantization huggingface superseded-by-baichuan2 commercial-license-required natural-language-processing gpu linux

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