whatmodel.sh / Jamba Large 1.7

Jamba Large 1.7 is an open-weights language model from AI21 Labs, released July 2025. Its published size is 398B parameters (94B active per token) and a 256k-token context window. Licence: jamba-open-model-license.

Catalogue identity notes

AI21 docs (observed 2026-10-09): 'jamba-large currently points to jamba-large-1.7-2025-07' and 'jamba-large-1.7 points to jamba-large-1.7-2025-07'. Weights ai21labs/AI21-Jamba-Large-1.7 @f95d1c3 (created 2025-07-02, licence other: jamba-open-model-license, gated). Vectara row label 'ai21labs/jamba-large-1.7-2025-07' is that exact dated API snapshot.

Model information sources

Release date ↗ · Weights licence ↗

AI21 docs Model Details: 'Jamba Large 398B parameters (94B active) 256K 1.7 2025-07'; HF safetensors metadata 398,555,145,696 (BF16).

50.2±14.9#433 of 949 LLMsfrom 1 benchmark result across 1 source* thinly tested, treat the rank as provisional

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of Jamba Large 1.7, out of 1132 with a score, then more from AI21 Labs.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
562Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B Instruct NVIDIA50±8local~6.9GB2024-10
563Gemini 1.5 Flash (001) Google50±1comparison only2024-05
564Jamba Large 1.7 AI21 Labs50±15api price unknown +local~103GB2025-07
565Llama-3-8B-ProLong-512k-Instruct Princeton NLP50±5local~35GB2024-08
566EXAONE 3.5 7.8B Instruct LG AI Research50±4local~6.1GB2024-12
more from AI21 Labs
332Jamba 1.6 Large AI21 Labs58±11local~839GB2025-02
485Jamba 1.6 Mini AI21 Labs53±10local~34GB2025-02
526Jamba2 Mini AI21 Labs52±15api price unknown +local~32GB2026-01

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$ what it's good at

other tests1 not in a task · 1.0% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Vectara hallucination leaderboard (HHEM-2.3, factual consistency rate)90.3% ✎▁▂▁▂▅█▂▃▄▃▁▁ beats 46/98very easy · avg 90%▇ 1.0%blunt

$ where to run it

Through an API

api · price unknown · 256k context · docs.ai21.com ↗

llama.cpp · recommended

version

  1. Install llama.cpp · Homebrew and winget installs name the commands llama-cli and llama-server instead.
    macOS / Linux
    curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh
    Windows
    irm https://llama.app/install.ps1 | iex

    other ways to install ↗

  2. Run Jamba Large 1.7 · needs ~240.4 GB · from huggingface.co/bartowski
    chat in the terminal
    llama cli -hf bartowski/ai21labs_AI21-Jamba-Large-1.7-GGUF:Q4_K_M
  3. Or start a local server and open the address it prints (http://localhost:9931)
    llama serve -hf bartowski/ai21labs_AI21-Jamba-Large-1.7-GGUF:Q4_K_M

LM Studio

version

  1. Install LM Studio · Open the app once before using the lms command.

    download it (macOS / Windows / Linux) ↗

  2. Run Jamba Large 1.7 · needs ~240.4 GB · from huggingface.co/bartowski

    open in LM Studio ↗

  3. Or download it in the terminal
    lms get https://huggingface.co/bartowski/ai21labs_AI21-Jamba-Large-1.7-GGUF@Q4_K_M -y
  4. Then run lms ls to see its name, and lms chat followed by that name

Other ways to run it

  1. Run it as published · needs ~797.11 GB, NVIDIA only · from huggingface.co/ai21labs (official)
    vllm serve ai21labs/AI21-Jamba-Large-1.7 --tensor-parallel-size 8 --quantization experts_int8

Official weights and documentation: huggingface.co/ai21labs ↗

$ how the score was worked out · Vectara hallucination leaderb… 1%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
Vectara hallucination leaderboard (vectara/hallucination-leaderboard repository)1▇ 1%Apache-2.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 99%
weighted average= 50.2

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