Stability AI Launches Japanese Language Model

Stability AI released Japanese StableLM, marking its entry into the Japanese language AI market.

The product includes two versions: Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B for text generation, and Japanese StableLM Instruct Alpha 7B geared towards research.

Japanese StableLM demonstrates superior performance on benchmarks compared to other Japanese models, with the instruct version scoring 54.71 across various tasks.

The training included a diverse dataset and employed software extensions of EleutherAI's GPT-NeoX with novel technologies for model architecture.

Both models are available on the Hugging Face Hub under the Apache License 2.0, facilitating testing, inference, and further training.