Snowflake Arctic
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