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SB Intuitions releases Sarashina1 series 7B/13B/65B Japanese LLMs
Sarashina1 series 7B/13B/65B Japanese LLMs released — stated explicitly that these are pretrained models without instruction tuning and are not intended for use as-is in practical services
Why it matters
An early case of a major Japanese company publicly releasing a pretrained model in its own language, and a sign of telecom capital entering homegrown LLMs
Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”
Officialsbintuitions.co.jphttps://www.sbintuitions.co.jp/news/press/20240614_01/Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week