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