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Athene

Available as managed deployment Licence fee LLMs Nexusflow Text gen 2 variants 3k dl/mo

Athene is an open-weight language model from Nexusflow. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.

What it is

MakerNexusflow
TypeLanguage models
TaskText gen
Parameters (lead)72.7B
Context32k tokens
Runs withtransformers
Based onQwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct
Released2024-11-12
Popularity3k downloads / month
LicenceCommercial licence needed

About

What Athene is

We introduce Athene-V2-Chat-72B, an open-weights LLM on-par with GPT-4o across benchmarks. It is currently the best open model according to Chatbot Arena, where it beats GPT-4o-0513 (the best GPT-4o model on Arena) in hard and math category, and is on-par with GPT-4o-0513 in coding, instruction following, longer query and multi-turn.

It is trained through RLHF with Qwen-2.5-72B-Instruct as base model. Athene-V2-Chat-72B excels in chat, math, and coding. Its sister model, Athene-V2-Agent-72B, surpasses GPT-4o in complex function calling and agentic applications.

Usage

Athene-V2-Chat uses the same chat template as Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct. Below is an example simple usage using the Transformers library.

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_name = "Nexusflow/Athene-V2-Chat"

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_name,
    torch_dtype="auto",
    device_map="auto"
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)

prompt = "Write a Python function to return the nth Fibonacci number in log n runtime."

messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": prompt}
]

text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    tokenize=False,
    add_generation_prompt=True
)

model_inputs = tokenizer([text], return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

generated_ids = model.generate(
    **model_inputs,
    max_new_tokens=2048
)

generated_ids = [
    output_ids[len(input_ids):] for input_ids, output_ids in zip(model_inputs.input_ids, generated_ids)
]

response = tokenizer.batch_decode(generated_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)[0]

Note that by adding a system prompt that encourages the model to think step by step, the model can improve further on difficult math queries and problems like counting rs in strawberry. For fairness consideration we do not include such system prompt during chat evaluation.

Acknowledgment

We would like to thank the LMSYS Organization for their support of testing the model. We would like to thank Qwen Team and the open source community for their efforts in providing the datasets and base models.

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys athene for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (athene below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"athene","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 5M tokens/month currently included with every new account at launch.

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