Tiny Aya Base
Tiny Aya Base is the pretrained foundation checkpoint behind the Tiny Aya family. It has 3.35 billion parameters and targets multilingual representation and downstream adaptation.
Research release
Capabilities and limits
The release is intended for research such as instruction tuning and language adaptation. Unlike the Global, Earth, Fire and Water chat variants, Base is a pretrained model. The model card supplies continuation-style usage rather than presenting it as a ready chat assistant.tiny-aya-base official model card
When this model fits
Practical guidance. Choose Base when the work is to study or adapt a multilingual model. For a user-facing conversation, start by comparing the instruction-tuned variants. Define the intended language behavior before adaptation and retain independent examples for review. A small parameter count can make experiments more accessible, but data quality and the license still determine what work is appropriate.
Specifications & access
| Detail | Value and conditions |
|---|---|
| Status | Research release |
| Access | Downloadable |
| Model identifiers | tiny-aya-base |
| Input context | 8K tokenstiny-aya-base official model card |
| Weight license | CC-BY-NC 4.0tiny-aya-base official model card |
| Access | Downloadable checkpoint; not a listed Chat API variantTiny Aya variants and API documentation |
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