Skywork

Why we included this project

Skywork is a bilingual Chinese-English model family that open-sources not just the weights but the training data, evaluation data, and evaluation methods, so a small team can study how a 13B-scale model is actually built rather than treat it as a black box. The repo includes a base, chat, math, and multimodal variant, plus quantized checkpoints sized for consumer GPUs. The documentation covers a 3.2-trillion-token pretraining recipe and the benchmarks used, which makes it feasible to reproduce comparisons against other 13B models. Teams working primarily in Chinese or wanting a lightweight local deployment are the most obvious audience. One thing to check first: the project uses a custom community license, not a standard open-source one, so read the terms before commercial use.