Tiny Aya
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3.35B-parameter edge-deployable multilingual model in 5 regional variants: Base, Global, Earth (Africa/West Asia), Fire (South Asia), Water (Asia-Pacific/Europe). Supports 70 languages. Beats Gemma3-4B in 46/61 languages on WMT24++ translation. African languages on GlobalMGSM: 39.2% vs Gemma3-4B 17.6%.
HuggingFace (Water)HuggingFace (Fire)Paper (arXiv, L2 reasoning)HuggingFace (L2 Thinker)Artificial Analysis
Model Details
Architecture DENSE
Parameters 3.35B
AA Intelligence 5
was 1 on v4.2
Variants
| Name | Parameters | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Tiny Aya L2 Thinker | — | Sep 2 2026; reasoning variant trained to think in the prompt language (paper: Building Multilingual Bridges, arXiv 2609.10445); gated, CC-BY-NC |
| Tiny Aya EN Thinker | — | Sep 2 2026; English-reasoning counterpart used as the paper's baseline |
| Tiny Aya Base 32K | — | Sep 8 2026; 32K-context base checkpoint |