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Snowflake Arctic

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Snowflake Arctic is an enterprise-oriented language model with a dense-plus-mixture-of-experts architecture, combining a 10B dense component with 128 expert modules. It has about 480B total parameters and 17B activated per token, targeting code, SQL, and instruction tasks at comparatively efficient training cost. Apache-licensed base and instruction weights support private deployments and reproducible evaluation. It remains a language model distinct from Arctic Embed and other retrieval products. Sparse activation does not eliminate the memory needed to store the complete model.

2024-04-24
480B total, 17B active
Dense-Mixture-of-Experts Transformer
Apache-2.0

Specifications

Parameters
480B total, 17B active
Architecture
Dense-Mixture-of-Experts Transformer
License
Apache-2.0
Context Window
4,096 tokens
Type
text
Modalities
text

Benchmark Scores

Advanced Specifications

Model Family
Arctic
API Access
Not Available
Chat Interface
Not Available
Variants
snowflake-arctic-basesnowflake-arctic-instruct

Capabilities & Limitations

Capabilities
SQL generationcodinginstruction following
Known Limitations
Full model requires substantial memoryOriginal context window is limitedSQL and code outputs require execution checks
Notable Use Cases
enterprise data assistantsprivate SQL workflowsmodel architecture research

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