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Bc-AI

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I like LLM's and VLM's.

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Bc-AI/nova-1-phase2-checkpoints

published a model about 15 hours ago

Bc-AI/nova-1-phase2-checkpoints

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Hello Everyone! Bc-AI here from Smilyai-labs! Today we have done our latest update for CodVa-1-Small. It is very powerful for coding, and benchmark results will come soon. However, it is NOT good for other tasks, with high hallucination rates. We will perform RLHF and DPO very soon!

posted an update 6 days ago

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Hello everyone! Today we announce our latest coding model, CodVa-1-Small! It is our most capable model to date for coding, which has completed pretraining and support multi-turn conversation! We will Instruction Tune it very soon! its at: Smilyai-labs/CodVa-1-Small

posted an update 8 days ago

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I have begun training a new LLM on a Single RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell GPU on MoLab free notebooks. This model is a 10B parameter model designed for coding tasks named CodVa-Large. Please expect a launch in a few months! Meanwhile, our CodVa-Small model is wrapping up pretraining and will launch in the coming weeks. Nova-1-Standard is complete as is and we will launch Large very soon.

replied to Banaxi-Tech's post 10 days ago

@Banaxi-Tech I tested your new model just then and I’d like to say it is possibly the best trained SLM I’ve seen so far. It is very strong in general chat, some simple recipes! The only downside is the math and code is a bit weaker but totally fine in a 50M totally tiny model! Keep up the great work!

replied to their post 20 days ago

你好！

replied to their post 21 days ago

in like phase 2 pretraining right now

posted an update 21 days ago

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we are going to release our latest NOVEL model next! it's called Nova-1-EXP and will be launched as private preview in the smilyai Laboratories BETA TESTERS organisation.

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posted an update 27 days ago

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New Update on Nova-1 series status!!! So, after 3 days of fixing our dataset script, we finally have nova-1-standard in its final phases of instruction tuning hopefully. I genuinely do not know ha-ha. We are also doing a novel model named Nova-1-EXP with 5 novel components in the model, which we will announce when the time comes.

posted an update 28 days ago

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Hello everyone! Today we have released a new chat UI for our new LLM! It's at https://nova.smilyai.org and also at: https://huggingface.co/spaces/hugging-science/Nova-1-official-chat

replied to Banaxi-Tech's post 30 days ago

Impressive! Although, I am curious how powerful the model will be! I have followed so I will see when you release it!

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https://huggingface.co/spaces/hugging-science/Nova-1-official-chat

posted an update 30 days ago

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Today, we have released our latest somewhat instruction tuned model! We have also resolved a major issue in our modeling_nova1.py custom code file! We made a zerogpu space to test our model so pleases check it out! its decent at coding, terrible at maths and not good at haiku's. We will continue to improve the model as time passes and the UI will use the latest model by default! https://huggingface.co/spaces/hugging-science/Nova-1-official-chat

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posted an update about 1 month ago

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Hello everyone! Today we have resolved the transformers incompatibility for Nova-1-Standard-Preview! It is currently loadable, with trust_remote_code as true. If you don't know what Nova-1-Standard is, we suggest you check out our intro video on the model card! https://huggingface.co/Smilyai-labs/Nova-1-Standard-Preview

posted an update about 1 month ago

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Hello everyone! We are Smilyai-labs, a small team of 4 high school students who love AI and find it very interesting! We are super excited to launch our first preview edition of our Nova-Standard model! Nova-1 is a small family of LLM's which we built from scratch! We designed a custom efficient architecture, featuring MoD layers and much more! We have added RoPE, making it perfect to use YaRN for context extrapolation! From internal tests, we have found that it can support 8K reasonably well and 16K with some performance decreases! Please note, that this is only a Beta version for testing, and we are actively working to fix it! We are only a small group of 4 students, so our progress might be a bit slow! Thank you for your patience! Thank you for checking out our work and a small follow would be appreciated! We are constantly updating, and we will roll out a gradio demo ASAP! Our hugging face org is at:

Smilyai-labs . Our model is at: https://huggingface.co/Smilyai-labs/Nova-1-standard-pretrained-preview . The Beta testers org is at:

Smilyai-labs-beta-testers .

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Feel free to join the organization! we have posted standard for beta testing already!

posted an update about 1 month ago

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# 🔥 Nova-1 Beta: Test Our New LLMs!

**Smilyai Labs** is building **Nova-1** — open-source LLMs with novel architectures. Join our beta program!

## 🎯 Available Now:

**Nova-1-Standard (1.2B)** — Phase 2 of pretraining in progress
- PPL 13.5 (beats GPT-2 Large!)
- 48K tok/s on consumer GPUs
- Great for code, reasoning, edge deployment

**Nova-1-Large (3.5B)** — Training live RIGHT NOW
- Current: 30.9 PPL, improving fast, loss at 3.5 right now
- Will finish with ~1.7B tokens today
- Better reasoning & longer context

**Nova-1-XL (10B MoE)** — Coming soon (We dont know yet! haha)
- Final Specs not decided yet

## What Makes Nova Special?

✨ **Mixture of Depths (MoD)** — Routes tokens dynamically, 30% faster
✨ **Grouped Query Attention** — Efficient like LLaMA 2/3
✨ **Phased Training** — Fresh 1B tokens each phase (no overfitting!)
✨ **RoPE** — Context extendable to 8K+

## 🤝 Join Beta Testing:

👉 **[Smilyai-labs-beta-testers](

Smilyai-labs-beta-testers

Get early access, shape the roadmap, and help build transparent open-source AI!

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replied to sagar007's post 6 months ago

Nice

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