AstroMLab/AstroSage-8B

AstroMLab/AstroSage-8B is an 8 billion parameter, domain-specialized natural language AI assistant based on Meta-Llama-3.1-8B, developed by AstroMLab. It is specifically tailored for research in astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology, having been trained on a comprehensive collection of astronomy-related arXiv papers and millions of synthetic question-answer pairs. This model demonstrates proficiency in a wide range of astronomical questions, outperforming general-purpose models of similar size and achieving comparable performance to GPT-4o on specialized benchmarks.