As we know by now, an LLM is a computer algorithm trained on massive datasets to understand and process natural language. This is what we require — AI that generates text, video and audio.

Chinese company 01.AI has released its new LLM, Yi-34B. it is so called since it has been trained on 34 billion parameters. Parameters, as we know, are the weights of inputs a model learns to predict what comes next in a sequence.

Kai-Fu Lee, a Taiwanese computer scientist, has founded this company in March, 2023. Its LLM model is open source. It is available to developers in English and Chinese.

Hugging Face, open source developer community platform, ranked Yi-34B first in a leaderboard of pre-trained LLMs. Though the model is smaller than Falcon-180B and Meta Lla-Ma2 70B, still it beats them. Lee Sees it as a ‘gold standard’ on key metrics.

Lee has worked for American Big Tech and is considered AI pioneer. He has authored two books on the subject.