Salamandra 2B
2B European open-source LLM covering 35 languages under Apache 2.0.
About
Salamandra 2B is the smallest model in the Salamandra family from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center's Language Technologies Unit, described in a technical report released in February 2025. The family includes 2B, 7B and 40B decoder-only models trained from scratch on highly multilingual data spanning 35 European languages plus code.
The corpus was curated exclusively from open-access data, and instruction-tuned chat checkpoints are also released. All models ship under a permissive Apache 2.0 license for both research and commercial use, and the team published its training and evaluation scripts for open science.
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