EU-built Villanova2 open model family ships 15.5B MoE and 2B dense, all Apache-2.0
pmttyji · reddit · 2026-11-16
EU-based team VillanovaAI released the Villanova2 model family, built for English, Italian, German, Spanish and French.
- Villanova2-15B-A3B: sparse MoE with 15.5B total / 3.9B active params, in Base, instruction-tuned, and vision-language (VL) variants
- Villanova2-2B: dense 2.4B, also with Base, instruct, and VL variants
GGUF quantizations are available and everything is Apache-2.0 licensed.
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