The model released is called Latam-GPT, the first large-scale open-source language model developed specifically for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Its size is 70 billion parameters (70B).
It is a continuous pre-training (CPT) adaptation of Meta’s Llama 3.1 70B base model, trained on a regionally-curated corpus of ~300 billion tokens that emphasize Latin American languages, cultures, and contexts.
This is great news for the community. We should measure a bit more closely how tool usage behaves in the wild. The gains you can get from different providers are not marginal.
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