Saiga

Community · 2023 · LLM · Open-source/community

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: Community
C · CEO & Politics: [UNKNOWN]
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: Open-source/community
K · Key Staffers: Ilya Gusev (Creator)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: LLM
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights under base-model licenses, e.g. Llama 3; code Apache 2.0)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: Saiga, Ilya Gusev's Russian-language chatbot models fine-tuned from open base models; Saiga/Llama3 8B, for example, is built on Llama 3 8B Instruct and trained with supervised fine-tuning and KTO preference optimization, using training scripts published in the Saiga GitHub repository.
S · Stock / Status: Research / open-source project
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: [UNKNOWN]
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights LLM from Community, released 2023.

Data completeness 77% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

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