CraneAILabs/swahili-gemma-1b

CraneAILabs/swahili-gemma-1b is a 1 billion parameter Gemma 3 instruction model developed by Crane AI Labs, specifically fine-tuned for English-to-Swahili translation and Swahili conversational AI. It excels in efficiency, achieving 27.6 BLEU per billion parameters, and outputs responses exclusively in Swahili. This model is optimized for practical deployment on consumer hardware while maintaining competitive translation quality.