SILMA

🇦🇪Google / GCC Partners · UAE · Arabic LLM

Arabic-focused language model released by Google, developed with regional partners in the GCC. Built on Gemma 2 architecture with Arabic instruction tuning.

SILMA (Scalable Instruction-tuned Language Model for Arabic) is built on Google's Gemma 2 architecture with Arabic-specific instruction tuning. Released on Hugging Face for open research use. The 9B variant shows competitive performance on Arabic benchmarks while maintaining multilingual capabilities.