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hibou-L

hibou-L is an open-weight embedding model from histai, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

Embeddings histai 1 variants 53k downloads/mo
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Specifications

What it is

Makerhistai
TypeEmbedding models
Parameters (lead)304M
Variants1
Released2024-08-07
Popularity53k downloads / month
Likes21
LicenceOpen weights

How it works

How embedding models work

Your textsentence / documentEncodermaps meaningVectorlist of numbersAn embedding model turns text into a vector, so similar meanings sit close together — the basis of search and RAG.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
hibou-L304MBF16~0.7 GBWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/embeddings \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"hibou-l","input":"text to embed"}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Tags

safetensors dinov2 medical pathology image-feature-extraction custom_code

Papers

Licence

Open weights

Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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