kestrel/kestrel-1.5b-base

Overview

The pretrained base behind the Kestrel instruct line, released for anyone who wants to tune their own.

kestrel/kestrel-1.5b-base is a 1.5B-parameter text generation model, published in safetensors under the apache-2.0 license.

Intended use

• Text generation in en.
• Research, prototypes and products that keep a person in the loop.
• Fine-tuning as a starting point for a narrower task.

How to use

# Command-line client (planned; the shape may change)
pace pull kestrel/kestrel-1.5b-base

# Python (planned)
from openpace import load
model = load("kestrel/kestrel-1.5b-base")

Limitations

• It can state wrong things fluently. Check facts that matter.
• Quality drops on languages and domains that were thin in its training data.
• It reflects biases present in public text.

License

Released under apache-2.0. Read the license file before using the weights commercially.