Ai2 byteifies Qwen 3 8B and Llama 3 8B into Bwen and Blama
Original titleWe byteified Qwen 3 8B & Llama 3 8B to create Bwen 8B & Blama 8B.
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Ai2 converted Qwen 3 8B and Llama 3 8B into byte-level models named Bwen 8B and Blama 8B. Both come close to matching their source models' performance in Ai2's evaluations, and Bwen 8B outperforms Bolmo 7B across its aggregate evaluation suite.
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