OpenELM
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- Apple
- C · CEO & Politics
- John Ternus
- D · Date
- 2024
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud + Local (open weights)
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- John Ternus (CEO since Sep 1, 2026), Tim Cook (Executive Chairman)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- LLM
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Yes — open weights
- P · Pricing
- Free (open weights, Apple research-only license)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- [UNKNOWN]
- R · What Makes It Special
- Apple's OpenELM family of small open language models (270M, 450M, 1.1B and 3B parameters, each pretrained and instruction-tuned), which use layer-wise scaling to allocate parameters within each transformer layer; pretrained on about 1.8 trillion tokens from RefinedWeb, deduplicated PILE and subsets of RedPajama and Dolma.
- S · Stock / Status
- $341 (AAPL, Sep 25, 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- Downloadable
- X · X Handle
- @Apple
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Open-weights LLM from Apple, released 2024.
Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗
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“OpenELM.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/openelm.html
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