  We introduce StableLM 2 1.6B, the first in a new generation of our language
model series. In this technical report, we present in detail the data and
training procedure leading to the base and instruction-tuned versions of
StableLM 2 1.6B. The weights for both models are available via Hugging Face for
anyone to download and use. The report contains thorough evaluations of these
models, including zero- and few-shot benchmarks, multilingual benchmarks, and
the MT benchmark focusing on multi-turn dialogues. At the time of publishing
this report, StableLM 2 1.6B was the state-of-the-art open model under 2B
parameters by a significant margin. Given its appealing small size, we also
provide throughput measurements on a number of edge devices. In addition, we
open source several quantized checkpoints and provide their performance metrics
compared to the original model.
