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Yi (6B Chat)

Other · ~6B parameters · 4B–12B (mid-size) · Last reviewed 2026-03-20

Why we use it

Competitive mid-size multilingual option when teams want permissive defaults outside the Llama/Mistral duopoly.

License summary

Apache 2.0 for several Yi open weights - verify the card; some community builds repackage under different terms.

Typical deployment profiles

  • VPC, single GPU class
  • VPC, multi-GPU

Focus tags

  • General
  • Multilingual

Typical use cases

  • Multilingual assistants
  • Teacher models
  • RAG pilots

External references

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