AstaBrief 8B
allenai/AstaBrief_8B
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Released
09 Feb 2026
License: apache-2.0 · allenai/AstaBrief_8B
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Ai2 releases AstaBrief 8B, open-weights model for scientific report generation
AstaBrief 8B is an 8-billion-parameter open-weights model fine-tuned from Qwen3-8B, designed to generate cited scientific reports from research questions and retrieved literature in a single pass. Available for download and local deployment or via the Asta platform, the model produces full multi-section reports in approximately 51 seconds, positioning it as a faster alternative to general-purpose research pipelines.
What's new
- Fine-tuned variant of Qwen3-8B with identical architecture (36 layers, 4096 hidden size, 32 attention heads)
- Produces cited multi-section scientific reports in ~51 seconds end-to-end
- Released as open-weights under Apache 2.0 license for download and local use
- Integrated into Asta platform in Fast mode alongside downloadable version
Best for
Generating cited scientific reports from literature and research questionsLocal deployment on single GPU infrastructure (24GB VRAM)Fast report synthesis compared to general-purpose chat models