SambaNova EvaByte
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- SambaNova Systems
- C · CEO & Politics
- Rodrigo Liang — No public partisan activity documented
- D · Date
- 2025
- 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
- Lin Zheng (Lead author), Lingpeng Kong (Senior 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
- 5/10 · AIDb v2.0 (curated): Capability 4/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 8/10 · Significance 4/10 → 4.60
- R · What Makes It Special
- Tokenizer-free byte-level LLM (6.5B) developed with University of Hong Kong. Trained on 1.5T bytes; multibyte prediction for faster decoding. Open weights.
- S · Stock / Status
- Private (~$11B valuation, Jul 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- Downloadable
- X · X Handle
- @SambaNovaAI
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Open-weights LLM from SambaNova Systems, released 2025.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗
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