Portugal releases Amalia, a 9B parameter LLM

The Portuguese government has released Amalia, a large language model with 9 billion parameters, to demonstrate the country's potential in AI. The model is available under an Apache 2.0 license and includes versions fine-tuned via Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO).

• Model size: 9B parameters.
• License: Apache 2.0.
• Versions: AMALIA-9B-0626-SFT and AMALIA-9B-0626-DPO available on Hugging Face.
• Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.26511
• No concise coding benchmarks were provided in the source.

This release aims to showcase Portugal's capabilities in developing large language models.