# clue-ai/ChatYuan

ChatYuan: Large Language Model for Dialogue in Chinese and English

Repository: https://github.com/clue-ai/ChatYuan
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/chatyuan
Homepage: https://www.clueai.cn
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2023-06-16T13:36:35+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 31/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 94
- inputs: {"age_days": 1328, "days_push": 1174, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1863, forks 172 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:46.058172+00:00)

## What it is
ChatYuan is an open-source bilingual (Chinese and English) dialogue large language model in ChatGPT style, with a lightweight variant runnable on consumer GPUs, PCs, or even phones via INT4 quantization. The repository provides model weights, inference code, and a Gradio web demo.

## Use cases
- run a bilingual chinese-english chatbot locally
- deploy a lightweight llm on consumer gpu or mobile
- generate code and tables with an open-source chinese llm
- try an open-source chatgpt alternative for chinese dialogue
- quantize an llm to int4 for low-resource inference

## When to choose
- you need an open-source dialogue model with strong Chinese support
- you want to run an LLM on limited hardware like a phone or consumer GPU
- you need contextual Q&A, creative writing, or basic code generation in Chinese or English

## When to avoid
- you need state-of-the-art reasoning or long-context performance from a frontier model
- you require a permissive commercial license (license is non-standard)
- you need a well-maintained project with recent updates

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: llm-inference, chatbot, nlp
- domain: large-language-models, chatbots
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: chinese-english, open-source-llm, dialogue-model, lightweight-inference, huggingface, natural-language-processing, gpu

## Member repositories
- clue-ai/ChatYuan (main) score 31

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:46.058172+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:15:38.691390+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/clue-ai/ChatYuan (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:46.058172+00:00, sha 911b598981f9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.