Athene Models by Nexusflow
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About
The Athene family of LLMs originates from Nexusflow, a company that excels in post-training optimization of large language models. Its flagship model, Athene-Llama3-70B (commonly known as Athene-70B), is an open-weights model fine-tuned from Meta AI's Llama-3-70B-Instruct through reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) 5. This meticulous post-training approach has notably enhanced its capabilities, leading to an impressive 77.8% score on Arena-Hard-Auto, a benchmark that strongly aligns with human evaluation on Chatbot Arena 5. As a result, Athene-70B is among the top-performing open-source models, on par with leading proprietary models 5. Nexusflow's post-training efforts mainly targeted improving the model’s instruction following, reasoning, coding, creative writing, and multilingual abilities 5. Additionally, the Athene series includes smaller models and others hinted at as Athene v2, v3, and v4 in different references 3811, though these are less detailed in the provided information.
Current Variants
Use-when guidance is derived from seed capabilities, context, release, and replacement fields.
Use when the workload needs 4k context and 70B parameters.
| Model | Use when | Released | Signals | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athene 70B | Use when the workload needs 4k context and 70B parameters. | 2024-07 | 4k context70B parameters | Current |
Release Timeline
1 release groupSpecifications(1 models)
| Model | Released | Context | Parameters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Athene 70B | 2024-07 | 4k | 70B |
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is Athene used for?
- Athene is used for coding and chatbot and role-playing use cases. The family description and listed model capabilities point to those workloads as the best fit.
- How does Athene compare to Starling?
- Athene by Nexusflow is strongest where you need coding, while Starling by Nexusflow is the closest related family to check for coding. Athene has 1 listed variant and reaches up to 4k context, while Starling reaches up to 8k context, so compare the specs and pricing tables before choosing a production model.
- Which Athene model should I use?
- If price is the main constraint, use the pricing table first because Athene does not have complete provider pricing in the local data. For the most capable/latest local choice, evaluate Athene 70B with 4k context.
