AquilaDense-16B
AquilaDense-16B is a 16 billion parameter chat model from BAAI, released June 15, 2024. AquilaDense-16B is an open-weights chat model with roughly 16 billion parameters.
by BAAI · 16B parameters
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Ways to use AquilaDense-16B in osFoundry
Connect with your own key (BYOK)
Open the key dialog and paste your BAAI API key. osFoundry discovers AquilaDense-16B automatically — assign it to a Maestro role (router, direct, orchestrator, or fallback) in the Pipeline tab and it is live in every chat. Your key, your provider account — no token markup.
Deploy a dedicated endpoint
AquilaDense-16B is open-weights — run it locally for free, or deploy a dedicated GPU endpoint in your workspace for reserved capacity with no rate limits.
Use it in a Room App
Room Apps declare AI features in their manifest, then call them with invokeAI:
import { invokeAI } from '@osfoundry/app-sdk'
// 'summarize' is an AI feature declared in your app manifest.
const result = await invokeAI('summarize', userText)
Call it from your own apps
Once a model is wired into your workspace you can host it as an API and reach it from your own services, scripts, or CI — outside osFoundry.
What hardware can run AquilaDense-16B
AquilaDense-16B runs on a single 16GB consumer GPU (~10 GB VRAM with KV-cache headroom). Full-precision inference fits on a single H100 80GB at FP16 precision (~39 GB).
AquilaDense-16B vs similar models
Licence
Unspecified — Licence terms not specified — verify the upstream model card before commercial use.
Check upstream documentation.
Frequently asked about AquilaDense-16B
Is AquilaDense-16B free to use?
AquilaDense-16B is free to run locally on your own hardware. Hosted access through osFoundry is metered (input Free (local), output Free (local)). You can switch between local and hosted at any time.
Can I use AquilaDense-16B commercially?
Commercial use is allowed with conditions. Licence terms not specified — verify the upstream model card before commercial use. Check upstream documentation.
How much VRAM does AquilaDense-16B need?
Approximately 10 GB at Q4 quantisation, or 39 GB at full FP16 precision. Fits on a single 24GB consumer GPU.
Can I run AquilaDense-16B locally?
Yes. AquilaDense-16B is open-weights and runs locally on a workstation GPU. osFoundry's local runtime handles model loading, quantisation, and routing.
What is AquilaDense-16B best at?
AquilaDense-16B is well-suited to text generation.
How do I use AquilaDense-16B in osFoundry?
Paste your BAAI API key in the key dialog (or deploy the open weights for self-hostable models), assign AquilaDense-16B to a Maestro role in the Pipeline tab, then use it in chat, Room Apps via invokeAI, or your own apps.
Published by BAAI on June 15, 2024. Source: https://huggingface.co/BAAI/AquilaDense-16B