OpenPace

kestrel/kestrel-7b-instruct

Chat7B paramssafetensorsLicense: apache-2.0enesfr#instruct#multilingual
Updated Sep 27, 2026
Part of the Open Pace seed catalog. Weights are listed for the preview and become downloadable at launch.

Overview

Seven billion parameters, tuned on a mix of written instructions and multi-turn conversations in three languages.

kestrel/kestrel-7b-instruct is a 7B-parameter chat model, published in safetensors under the apache-2.0 license.

Intended use

  • Chat in en, es, fr.
  • Research, prototypes and products that keep a person in the loop.
  • Fine-tuning as a starting point for a narrower task.

How to use

# Command-line client (planned; the shape may change)
pace pull kestrel/kestrel-7b-instruct

# Python (planned)
from openpace import load
model = load("kestrel/kestrel-7b-instruct")

Limitations

  • It can state wrong things fluently. Check facts that matter.
  • Quality drops on languages and domains that were thin in its training data.
  • It reflects biases present in public text.

License

Released under apache-2.0. Read the license file before using the weights commercially.

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