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Welcome to the Babel project - we aim to build open multilingual LLMs that serve as many users as possible to make #LLMs4Everyone 🌏.

The [current version](https://huggingface.co/collections/Tower-Babel/babel-67c172157372d4d6c4b4c6d5) of Babel covers the top 25 languages by number of speakers, supports over 90% of the global population, and includes many languages neglected by other open or close multilingual LLMs.

## Quick links
- Models are available in multiple variants: Babel-9B ([base](https://huggingface.co/Tower-Babel/Babel-9B), [chat](https://huggingface.co/Tower-Babel/Babel-9B-Chat)), Babel-83B ([base](https://huggingface.co/Tower-Babel/Babel-83B), [chat](https://huggingface.co/Tower-Babel/Babel-83B-Chat))
- Paper: [Babel: Open Multilingual Large Language Models Serving Over 90% of Global Speakers](https://huggingface.co/papers/2503.00865) (#1 Paper of the day!)

## Contact:
We welcome all types of feedback and collaborations to make Babel better support more languages!

Feel free to reach out: [Wenxuan Zhang](https://isakzhang.github.io/) (wxzhang@sutd.edu.sg) and [Yiran Zhao](https://zhaoyiran924.github.io/) (zhaoyiran@u.nus.edu)