H2O Danube, a super-tiny, open-weights small language model for offline applications
#1 Foundation Model on Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard for the <2B Range
H2O.ai just released its latest open-weight small language model, H2O-Danube2-1.8B, under Apache v2.0.
Designed to fine-tune or post-train on domain-specific datasets for enterprise applications and is economically efficient on interface and training. Easy to embed on edge devices like mobile phones, drones and in offline applications.
- Cost savings on the H2O.ai Platform. 200x cheaper on query cost.
- Serve more users. Better accuracy with up to 100% cheaper on document processing.
Open Source H2O-Danube2-1.8B is Available Worldwide Learn MoreGet the Mobile App
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Enterprise h2oGPTe synthesizes diverse data and lets you process thousands of documents or web pages–any way you want: inspect, extract, translate, transform, find differences, summarize. Your imagination is the limit.
Multi-modal Document AI with enterprise scale and security
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Convert structured data like financial tables to JSON
Get answers from diagrams, flowcharts, web pages, audio files, video files and images.
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Reliance on third-party provider
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Cost savings on H2O.ai Platform. 25x cheaper on query cost.
Serve more users. Better accuracy with up to 100% cheaper on Document Processing.
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