🌌 Borealis Preview
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Preview release of the Borealis family of instruction tuned models by the National Library of Norway.
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Release: Dec 22nd, 2025.
NbAiLab/borealis-4b-instruct-preview-gguf are quantized versions in GGUF format of a 4B-parameter instruction-tuned preview model intended for early testing and feedback. It is an experiment and should be treated as pre-release quality.
The original model is NbAiLab/borealis-4b-instruct-preview.
| Model | Bits | Format |
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| NbAiLab/borealis-4b-instruct-preview | BF16 | Transformers (safetensors) |
| NbAiLab/borealis-4b-instruct-preview-gguf | 8 | GGUF (q8_0) |
| NbAiLab/borealis-4b-instruct-preview-gguf | 16 | GGUF (f16) |
| NbAiLab/borealis-4b-instruct-preview-gguf | BF16 | GGUF (bf16) |
| NbAiLab/borealis-4b-instruct-preview-mlx | 32 | MLX |
| NbAiLab/borealis-4b-instruct-preview-mlx-8bits | 8 | MLX (quantized) |
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Base model
google/gemma-3-4b-pt