LLM Reference

Smaug 34B

Released
2023-12-09
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 16d ago
Long context

Smaug 34B has model metadata, but missing tracked provider pricing keeps it from being a default production pick.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating long context
  • Workloads that can use a 200k context window

Do not use it for

  • Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Family
Smaug
Released
2023-12-09
Context
200k
Parameters
34B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Specialization
general
Training
finetuned
Created by

AI Research and Cloud Services.

San Francisco, California, United States
Founded 2019
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

Smaug-34B-v0.1 is an advanced large language model developed by Abacus.AI, evolving from the Bagel-34B-v0.2 with 34.4 billion parameters. It employs the LlamaForCausalLM architecture and is accessible via Hugging Face. This model is fine-tuned using DPO-Positive, a novel technique enhancing conventional optimization methods, leading to improved outcomes on tasks with minimal data diversity. It leverages datasets like ARC and HellaSwag, but concerns exist regarding overfitting due to dataset similarities with benchmark tests. Smaug-34B-v0.1 scores an impressive average of 77.29% on several benchmarks, although its performance varies depending on contamination levels, and the absence of DPOP code may hinder reproducibility efforts.

Smaug 34B is a model in the Smaug family. The structured metadata tracks a 200k-token context window. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Smaug 34B yet.

Top use-case fit

Long context

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

Benchmark peer barsfor Long context

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

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