RightNow-Arabic-0.5B-Turbo: An Open Sub-1B Arabic Language Model via Vocabulary Injection and Edge-First Deployment 事件

RightNow-Arabic-0.5B-Turbo: An Open Sub-1B Arabic Language Model via Vocabulary Injection and Edge-First Deployment arXiv:2605.28827v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open Arabic large language models split into two classes: sub-1B multilingual models that treat Arabic as an afterthought (Qwen2.5-0.5B, Falcon-H1-0.5B), and 7B-70B Arabic-specialized models that require a server to run (Jais, AceGPT, ALLaM, SILMA). The one published attempt at a sub-2B Arabic-specialized model, Kuwain-1.5B, never re