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AI · November 10, 2021

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Cedille, the largest French language model, released in open source

We are excited to announce Cedille, the largest language model for French (6b parameters). Demo: https://cedille.ai Language models are general purpose AI systems that are able to solve a range of tasks by simply being prompted for it. It can be used for example to summarize text, do translations, or for idea generation & overcoming writer's block. You may know GPT-3, the humongous model from OpenAI. Cedille is a similar model targeting the French demographic - but smaller, as we don’t yet have $1b in the bank like they do. Although GPT-3 supports multiple languages including…

Cedille, the largest French language model, released in open source launched on November 10, 2021 with 240 votes, #91 of 2,925 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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Cedille is an open-source language model with 6 billion parameters designed specifically for French. It can summarize text, perform translations, and assist with writing and idea generation. The model performs competitively with larger multilingual systems on French-language tasks while remaining freely accessible to users through a web playground, making advanced AI capabilities available without restrictions.

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We are excited to announce Cedille, the largest language model for French (6b parameters). Demo: https://cedille.ai Language models are general purpose AI systems that are able to solve a range of tasks by simply being prompted for it. It can be used for example to summarize text, do translations, or for…

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