**Smilyai Labs** is building **Nova-1** ā open-source LLMs with novel architectures. Join our beta program!
## šÆ Available Now:
**Nova-1-Standard (1.2B)** ā Phase 2 of pretraining in progress - PPL 13.5 (beats GPT-2 Large!) - 48K tok/s on consumer GPUs - Great for code, reasoning, edge deployment
**Nova-1-Large (3.5B)** ā Training live RIGHT NOW - Current: 30.9 PPL, improving fast, loss at 3.5 right now - Will finish with ~1.7B tokens today - Better reasoning & longer context
**Nova-1-XL (10B MoE)** ā Coming soon (We dont know yet! haha) - Final Specs not decided yet
## What Makes Nova Special?
⨠**Mixture of Depths (MoD)** ā Routes tokens dynamically, 30% faster ⨠**Grouped Query Attention** ā Efficient like LLaMA 2/3 ⨠**Phased Training** ā Fresh 1B tokens each phase (no overfitting!) ⨠**RoPE** ā Context extendable to 8K+