AstaBrief 8B

Scientists can use it to produce cited reports in response to research questions.

Availability

Recently released

Pricing model

Not established

Deployment

Can be downloaded to run on own infrastructure

Privacy

Local infrastructure is intended for research questions that reveal sensitive or unpublished work

Licence

Open weights

• AstaBrief 8B turns a research question and retrieved literature excerpts into a cited report. ^{[1] [3]}

  We built AstaBrief 8B , a model that turns a research question and retrieved literature excerpts into a cited report.

• AstaBrief is available in Asta’s Generate a report feature as Fast mode. ^{[1] [3]}

  AstaBrief is available in Asta’s Generate a report feature today as Fast mode alongside Claude-powered Thinking mode, and we’re also open-sourcing it and the training data so others can study, reproduce, and build on our approach.

• Ai2 is open-sourcing AstaBrief’s model weights and training data. ^{[1] [3]}

  AstaBrief is available in Asta’s Generate a report feature today as Fast mode alongside Claude-powered Thinking mode, and we’re also open-sourcing it and the training data so others can study, reproduce, and build on our approach.

• Across the full Asta pipeline, Fast mode averages 51.1 seconds per report compared with 178.5 seconds for Thinking mode. ^{[1] [3]}

  The result is nearly an order-of-magnitude reduction in report generation time compared to the proprietary models we tracked—across the full Asta pipeline, Fast mode averages 51.1 seconds per report compared with 178.5 seconds for Thinking mode, about 3.5× faster.

• AstaBrief generates cited reports from research questions and retrieved literature. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

  The recently released AstaBrief is an open-weights model that generates cited reports from research questions and retrieved literature.

• AstaBrief was recently released.
• AstaBrief can be downloaded to run on a user's own infrastructure. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

  Scientists can use it in Asta’s Fast mode or download the model to run on their own infrastructure.

• AstaBrief can be used in Asta’s Fast mode. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

  Scientists can use it in Asta’s Fast mode or download the model to run on their own infrastructure.

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