Luciole: open language models, in three sizes
Luciole is not a product we rent to you, it is a digital common. The weights are published under the Apache 2.0 licence, at 1, 8 and 23 billion parameters, to cover needs that have nothing in common with one another. The models are developed by LINAGORA and the OpenLLM France consortium, with the support of BPI France under France 2030.
Why Luciole matters
Three sizes, three uses
The right size is not the largest, it is the smallest that meets your requirements. All three models share the same licence and the same context window.
- Parameters
- 1 billion
- Context window
- 16,384 tokens
- Licence
- Apache 2.0
What it is for
The lightest. Quantised GGUF builds let it run on modest hardware, with Ollama for instance. Its size limits what it can memorise: keep it for bounded tasks, backed by a document base.
- Parameters
- 8 billion
- Context window
- 16,384 tokens
- Licence
- Apache 2.0
What it is for
The balance. Instruction following across varied tasks: maths, science, code, general chat, corpus querying and translation. This is the default size for an internal assistant served on reasonable infrastructure.
- Parameters
- 23 billion
- Context window
- 16,384 tokens
- Licence
- Apache 2.0
What it is for
The most capable. Post-trained in three phases, one of them with thinking traces, then aligned through direct preference optimisation. For long reasoning and difficult synthesis.
The base models, also published, accept context windows of up to 131,000 tokens. The instruction-tuned versions were trained on sequences of 16,384 tokens.
We can operate this building block for you
You can deploy it yourself, it is open. You can also hand it to us: we run it to your requirements, on platforms subject neither to the Cloud Act nor to any other extraterritorial law.
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