RWKV-6

RWKV Foundation · 2024 · LLM · International

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: RWKV Foundation
C · CEO & Politics: Bo Peng (Lead Maintainer) — N/A / open-source community
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: International
K · Key Staffers: Daniel Goldstein (Co-first author), Quentin Anthony (Co-first author)
L · Languages: English-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: RWKV-6 (Finch), an RNN-style sequence model improving on RWKV-4 with multi-headed matrix-valued states and a dynamic recurrence mechanism that add expressivity while keeping RNN-like inference efficiency; Finch models with 1.6 and 3.1 billion parameters were trained alongside a new 1.12-trillion-token multilingual corpus and released on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0.
S · Stock / Status: Open-source project
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @RWKV_AI
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights LLM from RWKV Foundation, released 2024.

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

“RWKV-6.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/rwkv-6.html