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AI21 Jamba
OPENAI21 Labs · AI21 Jamba family · released Mar 28, 2024
First production-grade hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE base model, 12B/52B active/total, 256K context fitting 140K tokens on one 80GB GPU.
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302.4
Elo · rank #346
Parameters
52B
Active params
12B (MoE)
Context
256K tokens
Architecture
Hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE (Jamba)
License
Apache-2.0
Languages
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API price (in/out)
No hosted API
Modalities
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Benchmark results
Bar shows position within the tracked field; marker = field best
best: Llama 3.1 405B · 96.9%
best: Phi-3-medium (14B) · 97.7%
best: ERNIE 4.5 300B-A47B · 94.3%
best: GPT-5.6 · 94.6%
best: Llama 3.1 405B · 96.8%
best: Claude 3 Opus · 95.4%
best: Claude Opus 4.5 · 99.4%
best: Gemma 4 26B A4B · 98.5%
best: GPT-5 · 99.4%
best: Claude Fable 5 · 91.5%
best: OpenAI o3 · 92.9%
best: GPT-4o mini · 93.1%
best: Phi-3.5-MoE (16x3.8B, 6.6B active) · 77.5%
best: PaLM 2 · 90.9%
Run it locally
VRAM @ Q4
29.5 GB
VRAM @ FP16
104 GB
Fits on (Q4)
RTX 5090 32GBM4 Pro 48GBM3 Max 128GBM3 Ultra 512GBA100 80GBH100 80GBH200 141GBB200 192GB
Throughput data unavailable.
Quantizations
GGUF Q4 · GPTQ
AI21 Jamba family
Elo progression across releases
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