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Snowflake Arctic

by Snowflakeopen weights
Arctic family
Parameters
480B
Context window
4K tokens
Released
2024-04-24
Input price / 1M tok
Output price / 1M tok
Modality
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About Snowflake Arctic

Snowflake's enterprise-focused open MoE. 480B total, 17B active. Built with an emphasis on efficient training economics; less used in production than Llama or Mistral, but a landmark in the enterprise open-weights conversation.

Strengths

  • Open weights
  • Efficient MoE
  • Backed by Snowflake ecosystem

Weaknesses

  • 4K context
  • No tool use
  • Superseded by newer models on benchmarks

Best for

ResearchSnowflake Cortex usersFine-tuning experiments
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