Model
Inference & Serving
Snowflake Arctic
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the six Ws · specification
W1
Who
Snowflake AI Research developed Arctic as an enterprise-focused open large language model.
W2
What
Snowflake Arctic is a dense-MoE hybrid LLM tuned for SQL, coding, and enterprise instruction-following.
W3
Where
Weights and code are hosted on Hugging Face and GitHub under Snowflake-Labs.
W4
When
Released April 2024 by Snowflake.
W5
Why
Built to prove enterprise-intelligence tasks can be trained efficiently and released fully open.
W6
With
Runs via Hugging Face transformers or vLLM, with training recipes published on GitHub.
W7
Watch
Fully open weights and code under Apache 2.0, self-hostable, maintained by Snowflake Labs.