Portugal releases its own 9B open-source LLM, Amalia

Portugal's government has released its own , Amalia, with 9 billion parameters. The release was announced through an official government post, and two versions — one fine-tuned with SFT () and one refined with DPO (direct preference optimization) — were published on along with an accompanying research paper.

The model is released under the , which permits commercial use. No concrete benchmark numbers, including coding performance, have been published yet.

Key points

  • Portugal's government released its own 9B-parameter LLM called Amalia
  • Two versions — SFT and DPO — were uploaded to
  • Released under the , which allows commercial use
  • No concrete benchmarks, including coding performance, have been shared yet
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