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rnj-1-instruct

byEssential AIEssential AI· 08 Dec 2025
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Ashish Vaswani's Essential, which has released a 24T token pre-training dataset in the open before, released an 8B Gemma-like model with strong agentic capabilities. The blog goes into more details why they decided to pre-train models and some of the technical decisions and findings.

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Params8B
LicenseApache-2.0
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