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Fanar-1-9B
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Qatar's sovereign Arabic LLM. This 8.7B instruct model — the 'Prime' branch — continually pretrains google/gemma-2-9b on 1T Arabic and English tokens; a separate 7B 'Star' model was trained from scratch. The card claims MSA plus Gulf, Levantine and Egyptian dialects, and alignment with Islamic values and Arab culture.
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