Upstage is expanding the lineup of 'SOLAR', a big language model (LLM) that ranked first on the Hugging Face leaderboard.

Solar, which is currently being released, can be renamed 'Solar Mini' and start global service through Amazon Web Services (AWS). Subsequently, 'Pro' and 'Ultra' with increased parameters can be released.

Upstage announced on the twenty first that it had launched Solar Mini on AWS' machine learning (ML) hub 'Amazon SageMaker Jumpstart'. Amazon SageMaker was also used through the Solar development process.

As well as, it was concurrently launched on ‘AWS Marketplace,’ a digital catalog for software supplier solution distribution. Any more, solar can now be easily introduced anywhere on the planet.

It was reported that firms world wide using AWS can develop ‘custom-generated AI services’ using Solar Mini without the necessity to develop their very own models. Solar Mini supports Korean and English models, and plans to expand its overseas presence by expanding to Japanese and Thai inside the 12 months.

As well as, Upstays is expanding its solar model lineup to reply to diverse demands in the longer term.

The model with the prevailing parameter 10.7B is known as Solar Mini, and Solar is confirmed because the brand model name. In other words, in the longer term, models can be released in three stages, including ▲Solar Mini ▲Solar Pro ▲Solar Ultra.

In the event you access the product menu on the present Upstage official website, you possibly can see that the Pro and Ultra menus, following the Solar Mini, are placed in a disabled state.

Mini is applicable to low GPU resources and on-device AI. The sizes of the Pro and Ultra under development weren’t disclosed.

An Upstage official explained, “Solar Mini is a model with the identical parameters and version as the prevailing Solar, and the name was modified based on strategy.”

He also said, “This AWS launch is meaningful in that it visualizes our future strategy and is the primary standalone launch outside of corporate collaboration cases.”

Upstage has previously established a U.S. subsidiary and announced full-fledged overseas expansion, so it plans to speed up its efforts to focus on the worldwide LLM market using cooperation with AWS as a bridgehead. They said they’d step by step expand the scope of cooperation.

Seong-Hoon Kim, CEO of Upstage, said, “By choosing AWS as a cloud-first operator, now we have began our startup journey and rapidly expanded our business with the credits and technical support provided by the AWS Activate program.” He added, “We’ve provided a stable and modern AI solution for enterprise applications. “We’re doing our greatest to offer,” he said.

“Solar Mini is a strong solution that helps firms of all sizes easily adopt generative AI based on the necessities of assorted regions,” said Jeong-won Yoon, head of public sector at AWS Korea. “AWS’ secure stack is on the forefront of language model innovation.” “We’re doing it,” he said.

Reporter Jang Se-min semim99@aitimes.com