candle-helium: 2b LLM with CC-BY licensed weights

Helium-1 is a lightweight model with around 2B parameters, the preview version currently supports 6 languages, showing strong capabilities in those languages compared to existing open weights models.

Blog Post announcing the model release.
Model card on the HuggingFace Hub.

Running the example

$ cargo run --example helium --release --features cuda -- --prompt 'Write helloworld code in Rust' --sample-len 150