Model
CodingInference & Serving
StarCoder2
1BigCode's 2open 3code-generation 4language 5model 6family
the six Ws · specification
W1
Who
The BigCode project, a collaboration led by Hugging Face and ServiceNow, developed StarCoder2 as an open code model family.
W2
What
StarCoder2 is a code-generation LLM available in 3B, 7B, and 15B sizes trained on The Stack v2.
W3
Where
Weights are hosted on Hugging Face under bigcode, with inference and fine-tuning code on GitHub.
W4
When
Released February 2024 by the BigCode project.
W5
Why
Built to give developers a transparent, permissively licensed alternative to closed coding assistants.
W6
With
Runs via Hugging Face transformers, vLLM, or llama.cpp with the released checkpoints.
W7
Watch
Open weights under the BigCode OpenRAIL-M license, self-hostable, maintained by the BigCode community.
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