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SnowflakeReleased April 24, 2024

Arctic

Snowflake · Released April 24, 2024

Intelligence score

3

At a glance

Intelligence
3
Speed
—
Latency
—
Input price
Not published
Output price
Not published
Context window
4Ktokens
Parameters
480billions

Summary

Comparison summary

Arctic Instruct scores 3 (estimated) on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it at the lower end among other open weight non-reasoning models of similar size (median: 17).

Specifications

Technical specifications

Model nameArctic
ProviderSnowflake
Release dateApril 24, 2024
Intelligence score3
Speed—
Latency (TTFT)—
Input priceNot published
Output priceNot published
Context window4,000 tokens
Parameters480B
ReasoningNo
Input modalitiestext
Output modalities—
Open weightsYes
LicenseApache 2
API availability—
SourceModel Intelligence legacy profile: arctic-instruct

FAQ · 16

Frequently asked questions

Arctic Instruct was released on April 24, 2024.

Arctic Instruct was created by Snowflake.

Arctic Instruct scores 3 (estimated) on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it at the lower end among other open weight non-reasoning models of similar size (median: 17).

No, Arctic Instruct is not a reasoning model. It provides direct responses without extended chain-of-thought reasoning.

Arctic Instruct supports text only input.

Arctic Instruct supports text only output.

No, Arctic Instruct does not support image input. It can only process text.

No, Arctic Instruct is not multimodal. It only supports text only input.

Arctic Instruct has a context window of 4.0k tokens. This determines how much text and conversation history the model can process in a single request.

Yes, Arctic Instruct is open weights. The model weights are publicly available and can be downloaded for self-hosting.

Arctic Instruct has 480 billion parameters (17 billion active).

Arctic Instruct is a Mixture of Experts (MoE) model with 480 billion total parameters, but only 17 billion active parameters are used during inference.

Arctic Instruct is released under the Apache 2.0 license. This license allows commercial use.

Arctic Instruct achieves a score of 3 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. This composite benchmark evaluates models across reasoning, knowledge, mathematics, and coding.

Arctic Instruct is an open weights model that can be self-hosted.

Arctic Instruct is an open weights model that can be downloaded and self-hosted.