Yi is a series of LLMs trained from scratch at 01.AI. The models have the same architecture of Llama, making them compatible with all the llama-based ecosystems. Just in November, they released

• Base 6B and 34B models
• Models with extended context of up to 200k tokens
• Today, the Chat models

With the release, they are also releasing 4-bit quantized by AWQ and 8-bit quantized by GPTQ

• Chat model - https://huggingface.co/01-ai/Yi-34B-Chat
• Demo to try it out - https://huggingface.co/spaces/01-ai/Yi-34B-Chat

Things to consider:

• Llama compatible format, so you can use across a bunch of tools
• License is not commercial unfortunately, but you can request commercial use and they are quite responsive
• 34B is an amazing model size for consumer GPUs
• Yi-34B is at the top of the OS Leaderboard, making it a very strong base model for a chat one