Celebrating International Greek Language Day: ILSP unveils Llama-Krikri, a next generation Greek Large Language Model

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 09/02/2025

On the occasion of International Greek Language Day, the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) of the Athena Research Center (Athena RC) proudly announces the launch of Llama-Krikri-8B, a cutting-edge Large Language Model tailored for the Greek language, built on Meta’s Llama 3.1-8B.

Llama-Krikri-8B marks the natural progression of ILSP’s mission to advance Greek language technology in the era of artificial intelligence, following the success of Meltemi, the first open LLM designed for Greek text generation. Licensed under the Llama 3.1 Community License Agreement, Llama-Krikri-8B empowers researchers and businesses alike to develop innovative AI-driven applications with a strong Greek language foundation.

Key Features of Llama-Krikri-8B:

  • Built on Meta’s Llama 3.1-8B model, it has been extensively trained on high-quality Greek language data to ensure superior adaptation to linguistic nuances.
  • With 8 billion parameters, it offers advanced linguistic capabilities while maintaining efficient computational performance.
  • Supports both Modern Greek and English, with additional capabilities for processing polytonic text and Ancient Greek. It also extends support to seven other languages included in Llama 3.1.
  • Features an expanded context window of 128k tokens, significantly surpassing Meltemi’s 8k tokens, allowing for deeper language comprehension and more sophisticated responses.
  • Demonstrates notable improvements over Meltemi in both natural language and code generation, providing enhanced functionality for diverse applications.

Llama-Krikri-8B is a major milestone in strengthening the presence of the Greek language in the digital age, seamlessly bridging linguistic heritage with state-of-the-art advancements in artificial intelligence.

You can try the new model at https://chat.ilsp.gr or download it from Hugging Face (base model Llama-Krikri-8B-Base and instruct model Llama-Krikri-8B-Instruct).

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