Language Models for Portuguese

List of models optimized for Portuguese (both Brazilian and European varieties), focusing on architectures with at least 1 billion parameters.

When appropriate, the models are grouped into “families”. The information presented for each model includes: name, release date, license, Portuguese variety, size, base model, weights, variations, training data, data cutoff date, associated API, online chat, and development team.

Click on the family name to access information about each language model variant.

Alpaca-LoRA-PTBR

• Name: Alpaca-LoRA-PTBR
• Release date: 2023-03-18
• License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
• Portuguese variety: Brazil
• Size: 7B
• Base model: Llama 1
• Weights: sim
• Variations: Alpaca-lora-ptbr-7b
• Training data: Stanford Alpaca (traduzido automaticamente)
• Data cutoff (training): ≥ 2022-09
• Associated API: —
• Online chat: —
• Team: Maicon Domingues

Amália

• Name: Amália
• Release date: (futuro)
• License: (?)
• Portuguese variety: Portugal
• Size: 9B
• Base model: (?)
• Weights: (futuro)
• Variations: (?)
• Training data: (?)
• Data cutoff (training): (?)
• Associated API: (futuro)
• Online chat: —
• Team: Governo de Portugal, NOVA FCT, IST-UL

Amazônia IA

• Name: Amazônia IA
• Release date: 2024-08-05
• License: Proprietária
• Portuguese variety: Brazil
• Size: (confidencial)
• Base model: (?)
• Weights: não
• Variations: —
• Training data: (?)
• Data cutoff (training): (?)
• Associated API: (futuro)
• Online chat: sim
• Team: Widelabs, Oracle, NVIDIA

Bode

• Name: Bode
• Release date: 2023-10-11
• License: MIT
• Portuguese variety: Brazil
• Size: 7B e 13B
• Base model: Llama 2
• Weights: sim
• Variations: Bode-7b-alpaca-pt-br, Bode-13b-alpaca-pt-br
• Training data: Subconjunto em português do mC4
• Data cutoff (training): ≥ 2023-07
• Associated API: —
• Online chat: —
• Team: Recogna

Canarim

Canarim Instruct

• Name: Canarim Instruct
• Release date: 2023-11-17
• License: Llama 2 Community License
• Portuguese variety: Brazil
• Size: 7B
• Base model: Llama 2
• Weights: sim
• Variations: Canarim-7B-Instruct
• Training data: CC-MAIN-2023-23
• Data cutoff (training): ≥ 2023-07
• Associated API: —
• Online chat: —
• Team: Maicon Domingues

Canarim VestibulAide

• Name: Canarim VestibulAide
• Release date: 2023-11-17
• License: Llama 2 Community License
• Portuguese variety: Brazil
• Size: 7B
• Base model: Llama 2
• Weights: sim
• Variations: Canarim-7B-VestibulAide
• Training data: Provas de vestibulares
• Data cutoff (training): ≥ 2023-07
• Associated API: —
• Online chat: —
• Team: Maicon Domingues

Carvalho_pt-gl

• Name: Carvalho_pt-gl
• Release date: 2024-03 até 2025-03
• License: Llama 3.1 Community License
• Portuguese variety: Galiza e Portugal
• Size: 1.3B
• Base model: Cerebras-GPT
• Weights: sim
• Variations: Llama-Carvalho-PT-GL, Carvalho_pt-gl-1.3B, Llama-Carvalho-PT, Llama-Carvalho-GL
• Training data: CorpusNOS, BNE-gl, Arquivo.pt
• Data cutoff (training): (?)
• Associated API: —
• Online chat: —
• Team: CiTIUS e ILG-USC

Cocoruta

Cocoruta

• Name: Cocoruta
• Release date: 2023-10-28
• License: Llama 2 Community License
• Portuguese variety: Brazil
• Size: 7B
• Base model: Llama 2
• Weights: sim
• Variations: Cocoruta-7b
• Training data: Legislação brasileira sobre meio ambiente
• Data cutoff (training): 2023
• Associated API: —
• Online chat: —
• Team: KEML-C4AI (Felipe de Oliveira Espírito Santo)

Cocoruta 2

• Name: Cocoruta 2
• Release date: 2025-02-10
• License: Llama 3.1 Community License
• Portuguese variety: Brazil
• Size: 8B
• Base model: Llama 3.1
• Weights: sim
• Variations: Cororuta-2-8b
• Training data: Legislação brasileira sobre meio ambiente
• Data cutoff (training): 2025
• Associated API: —
• Online chat: —
• Team: KEML-C4AI (Felipe de Oliveira Espírito Santo)

Gaia

• Name: Gaia
• Release date: 2024-05
• License: Gemma
• Portuguese variety: Brazil
• Size: 4B
• Base model: Femma 3 4B
• Weights: sim
• Variations: Gemma-3-Gaia-PT-BR-4b-it
• Training data: Artigos científicos e Wikipédia
• Data cutoff (training): 2024-09
• Associated API: —
• Online chat: —
• Team: CEIA-UFG

Gervásio

Gervásio 7B PTBR

• Name: Gervásio 7B PTBR
• Release date: 2024-02-28
• License: MIT
• Portuguese variety: Brazil
• Size: 7B
• Base model: Llama 2
• Weights: sim
• Variations: Gervasio-7b-portuguese-ptbr-decoder
• Training data: GLUE, SuperGLUE
• Data cutoff (training): (?)
• Associated API: —
• Online chat: —
• Team: Portulan Clarin

Gervásio 8B PTPT

• Name: Gervásio 8B PTPT
• Release date: 2025-06-11
• License: MIT
• Portuguese variety: Portugal
• Size: 8B
• Base model: Lamma 3.1
• Weights: sim
• Variations: Gervasio-8b-portuguese-ptpt-decoder
• Training data: extraGLUE-Instruct, MMLU PT, Natural Instructions, Wikipedia, Proverbs
• Data cutoff (training): (?)
• Associated API: —
• Online chat: sim
• Team: Portulan Clarin

Glória

• Name: GlórIA
• Release date: 2024-02-26
• License: ClueWeb22 Dataset License
• Portuguese variety: Portugal
• Size: 1.3B
• Base model: GPT-Neo
• Weights: sim
• Variations: GlorIA-1.3B
• Training data: ClueWeb22 PTPT, OSCAR PTPT, ArquivoPT, OpenSubtitles PTPT, PTWiki, EuroParl PTPT
• Data cutoff (training): (?)
• Associated API: —
• Online chat: —
• Team: Pesquisadores da NOVA FCT

Juru

• Name: Juru
• Release date: 2025-06-29
• License: (?)
• Portuguese variety: Brazil
• Size: 7B
• Base model: Mistral
• Weights: sim
• Variations: Juru-7B
• Training data: Artigos acadêmicos do domínio legal brasileiro, dados do LexML, e documentos do STF
• Data cutoff (training): 2024
• Associated API: —
• Online chat: —
• Team: Roseval Malaquias Junior

L³M

• Name: L³M
• Release date: (futuro)
• License: Proprietária
• Portuguese variety: Brazil
• Size: (?)
• Base model: (?)
• Weights: não
• Variations: (?)
• Training data: Escavador
• Data cutoff (training): (?)
• Associated API: —
• Online chat: —
• Team: NeuralMind e Escavador

openCabrita

• Name: openCabrita
• Release date: 2023-07-06
• License: Apache 2.0
• Portuguese variety: (?)
• Size: 3B
• Base model: Llama 1
• Weights: sim
• Variations: Open-cabrita3b
• Training data: Subconjunto em português do mC4
• Data cutoff (training): ≥ 2022-09
• Associated API: (futuro)
• Online chat: —
• Team: 22h

Sabiá

Sabiá-3

• Name: Sabiá-3
• Release date: 2024-04
• License: Proprietária
• Portuguese variety: Brazil
• Size: (confidencial)
• Base model: (confidencial)
• Weights: não
• Variations: Sabia-3, Sabiazinho-3
• Training data: Dados públicos da internet
• Data cutoff (training): 2023
• Associated API: exige pagamento
• Online chat: sim
• Team: Maritaca AI

Sabiá-3.1

• Name: Sabiá-3.1
• Release date: 2025-05
• License: Proprietária
• Portuguese variety: Brazil
• Size: (confidencial)
• Base model: (confidencial)
• Weights: não
• Variations: Sabia-3.1
• Training data: Dados públicos da internet
• Data cutoff (training): 2024-08
• Associated API: exige pagamento
• Online chat: sim
• Team: Maritaca AI

Sabiá-7B

• Name: Sabiá-7B
• Release date: 2023-11-08
• License: LLaMA License
• Portuguese variety: Brazil
• Size: 7B
• Base model: Llama 1
• Weights: sim
• Variations: Sabia-7b
• Training data: ClueWeb22
• Data cutoff (training): 2022
• Associated API: —
• Online chat: sim
• Team: Maritaca AI

SoberanIA

• Name: SoberanIA
• Release date: (futuro)
• License: (?)
• Portuguese variety: Brazil
• Size: (?)
• Base model: (?)
• Weights: (futuro)
• Variations: (?)
• Training data: (?)
• Data cutoff (training): (?)
• Associated API: (futuro)
• Online chat: (futuro)
• Team: Governo do Piauí

Tucano

• Name: Tucano
• Release date: 2024-11-07
• License: Apache 2.0
• Portuguese variety: Brazil
• Size: 0.16B a 2B
• Base model: (?)
• Weights: sim
• Variations: Tucano-1b1-Instruct, Tucano-2b4-Instruct
• Training data: GigaVerbo
• Data cutoff (training): (?)
• Associated API: —
• Online chat: —
• Team: Tucano Project

Contributors:

• Vinícius Bitencourt Matos
• Arnaldo Candido Junior