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Baichuan 2 13B

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Baichuan

Baichuan's bilingual Chinese-English model with 13B parameters trained on 2.6T high-quality tokens. Supports both Chinese and English with best-in-class performance for its size across general, legal, medical, mathematics, code, and multilingual domains. Features ALiBi position encoding and 4K context window. Achieves 31.6% faster inference than LLaMA-13B. Evaluated on C-Eval, MMLU, and CMMLU benchmarks. Available in Base and Chat variants plus 4-bit quantized version. Outperforms comparable models on authoritative Chinese, English, and multilingual benchmarks. Free for commercial use with email application. Represents strong Chinese language capabilities at accessible model size.

Strengths

  • Best performance for 13B size on Chinese language benchmarks
  • Trained on 2.6T high-quality tokens across 6 domains (general, legal, medical, math, code, multilingual)
  • 31.6% faster inference speed vs standard LLaMA-13B
  • Strong bilingual Chinese-English capabilities
  • Available in multiple variants - Base, Chat, 4-bit quantized
  • Free commercial use with simple email application
  • Efficient 13B size suitable for deployment on single GPU

Caveats

  • 4K context window small vs modern models (128K-2M)
  • Released Sep 2023 - newer Chinese models may surpass
  • Primarily optimized for Chinese/English - limited multilingual
  • Lower performance than larger models (70B+) on complex tasks
  • Consider Qwen 2.5 or newer models for latest Chinese NLP
Vendor
Baichuan
Context Window
4,096 tokens
Max Output
2,048 tokens
License
Baichuan 2 Community License
Release Date
2023-09-01
Modalities
text

Capabilities

Vision
Audio
Video
Tool Use

Pricing

Open source - free for commercial use with application. Requires GPU. API providers typically $0.30-$0.60 per 1M input tokens

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