Arabic AI Model - SILMA 9B

SILMA 9B sets a new standard for Arabic language models with its outstanding performance. Despite its compact size of just 9 billion parameters, it surpasses larger models in both effectiveness and efficiency

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What makes SILMA 9B special?

Open Weight

SILMA is an open-weight model, freely available under our open license

Based on Google Gemma

SILMA is powered by the robust foundation of Google Gemma models, combining their strengths to deliver exceptional performance and reliability in Arabic

Strong Performance

SILMA is a compact Arabic language model that outperforms bigger models on many Arabic language tasks, making it a more practical choice for real-world business applications

SILMA ranked at the top of Arabic benchmarks until February 2025