PolyLM

Alibaba · 2023 · LLM · China

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: Alibaba
C · CEO & Politics: Eddie Wu — Not publicly documented (PRC-based; operates under Chinese regulatory environment)
D · Date: 2023
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text
J · Jurisdiction: China
K · Key Staffers: Jingren Zhou (CTO, Tongyi Lab)
L · Languages: Chinese-primary
M · Model Type: LLM
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, Apache 2.0)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: PolyLM, a polyglot decoder-only LLM in 1.7B and 13B sizes, trained on 640B tokens with bilingual data and a curriculum that raises the non-English share from 30% to 60%; it covers 18 languages and, per its authors, beats LLaMA and BLOOM on multilingual tasks while staying comparable in English. An instruction-tuned version used 132.7K self-generated multilingual instructions.
S · Stock / Status: $110 (BABA, Sep 25, 2026)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @AlibabaGroup
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights LLM from Alibaba, released 2023.

Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“PolyLM.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/polylm.html