Welcome to Boldt!
Boldt is a family of German language models developed by the Chair of Machine Learning @ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. This organization hosts our models, datasets, and research artifacts related to the Boldt project.
Feel free to explore, download, and experiment with our latest releases! 🚀
🌟 The Boldt Model Family
Our models are trained on our German Dense-Core subset of FineWeb-2, utilizing a multi-epoch training recipe on high-quality data.
| Model |
Parameters |
Context Window |
Description |
| Boldt-DC-350M |
350M |
2048 |
Ultra-lightweight base model for constrained environments. |
| Boldt-DC-1B |
1B |
2048 |
Highly optimized 1B base model with top-tier German performance. |
| Boldt-1B |
1B |
4096 |
Extended context and augmented with 6B tokens of high-quality German news data. |
| Boldt-1B-IT-Preview |
1B |
4096 |
Experimental instruction-tuned model. |
📊 Comparison
Boldt-1B compares favorably on German LLM benchmarks against other similarly-sized models:

It is even competitive with many larger (2B parameter) models. See our paper for the full evaluation.
📖 Research & Artifacts