The field of Artificial Intelligence in Spain has taken a significant step forward with the launch of ALIA. In this article, we analyze this new model and share the results of our practical test.
🧠 What is ALIA?
ALIA (Activos para el Lenguaje y la Inteligencia Artificial) is a project developed by the Government of Spain. Its main component is a language model (LLM) with 40 billion parameters, designed to compete with leading international models.
🌟 Main features
- Model 40B parameters
- Multilingual capability: Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician and other languages
- Open source: publicly available code and training scripts
- Accessible datasets for research and development
🧪 Our test
To test ALIA a bit, we performed a test in a local environment with the following specifications:
- Hardware: 2x NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti
- Software: llama.cpp with 3-bit quantized model
The challenge consisted of completing the phrase“Once upon a time” with up to 100 tokens in five languages: Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician and English.
📊 Results
Highlights:
- Narrative consistency in the stories generated
- Use of varied vocabulary and complex syntactic structures… except in the case of Euskera, which repeats the same thing:“among us Basques there is no will to learn Euskera, and even less to live in Euskera”. Who knows where they took that text from for the training.
- Adaptation to specific cultural references of each language.
- Pattern without accents. If you look at the video, the Spanish entry was “Erase una vez”, without a tilde on the E. Result? In the generated text there was not a single tilde… fault or characteristic?
🚀 Implications for AI in Spain
The launch of ALIA represents a significant step forward in the development of AI in Spain. Its open source nature could catalyze innovation in a variety of sectors, from education to industry to public administration.
🎬 Conclusion
ALIA demonstrates the potential of Spain in the field of AI, despite being a model of only 40B, it is a starting point especially in applications that require a deep understanding of the languages and cultures of Spain.
We will closely follow the development of ALIA and will conduct further tests in the future. We are interested in hearing from you:
What applications would you like to see developed with ALIA?
