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The morena ai tag on WindowsForum.com follows Vambo AI's MORENA family of open-weight language models, released on September 18, 2026. MORENA is built from scratch for twelve African languages alongside English, French and code, and ships in 1.5B base and instruct versions plus 0.5B mini and 0.2B nano variants under Apache 2.0, with llama.cpp builds that run locally. Discussion centers on Vambo's own 26-model African-language benchmark, where the 1.5B base model scored highest, and on how carefully that result should be framed against larger Google, Meta and Alibaba models.
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    Vambo MORENA 1.5B Leads Its 26-Model African Language Benchmark

    Vambo AI released MORENA on September 18, 2026. It is a family of open-weight language models built from scratch for twelve African languages plus English, French and code: a 1.5-billion-parameter base and instruct pair, a 0.5B "mini" and a 0.2B "nano". All of them ship under Apache 2.0 with...
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