StarCoder 2
TrendingBigCode's 15B parameter open-source code model trained on diverse programming languages. Optimized for code generation with 32K context window.
4.6rating
1.8M+users
5/15/2024Released
BigCode (Hugging Face + ServiceNow)Company
Model Overview
StarCoder 2 is an advanced open-source code generation model developed by the BigCode project, a collaboration between Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research with NVIDIA. With 15 billion parameters, it's trained on a massive dataset of source code in multiple programming languages.
Advantages
- Completely open source and free
- Strong performance across multiple languages
- Efficient 15B parameter size
- Active community support
- Commercial use allowed
Disadvantages
- Smaller than latest commercial models
- Requires technical setup for deployment
- Limited context compared to newer models
- May need fine-tuning for specific tasks
Model Information
Model Size15B parameters
Context Window32K tokens
ArchitectureDecoder-only Transformer
Training DataMay 2024
Use Cases
- Open source project development
- Educational coding assistance
- Custom model fine-tuning
- Research and experimentation
- Cost-effective code generation