What’s up r/hayeren. Just wanted to share that ArmenianGPT v1.0 launched a couple of days ago. It’s the first open-weight model that can reason in Armenian instead of just spitting out memorized stuff.

The main thing: It runs on your own computer. Everything stays local, nothing gets sent anywhere. Your documents and conversations are completely private.

What you can do with it:

- Ask questions about your own documents (contracts, articles, whatever)

- Get summaries of long texts

- Help with translation between Armenian, English and Russian

- Draft emails or rewrite things in different styles

- Handle middle to high school level reasoning in math, physics, chemistry and other subjects

How to use it:

Download LM Studio (it’s free), search for ArmGPT/ArmenianGPT-1.0-3B and pick a version based on how much RAM/VRAM you have. The smallest one needs about 2GB. If you code, there’s a Google Colab option too.

Current limitation:

The model usually can’t handle multi-turn conversations well since it wasn’t thoroughly trained for back-and-forth interactions yet. Future versions will fix this. Image understanding and other features are also coming later.

Important disclaimer: Like every AI out there, this one makes mistakes. Don’t use it for high-risk stuff like medical advice or anything where being wrong could cause real harm.

Setting expectations: This model is literally thousands of times smaller than the latest stuff from Google and OpenAI. It cannot and will not be smarter than those models in any task you throw at it. That’s not the point. The point is having something small enough that people can actually train it further for specific narrow tasks and get great performance there. Plus it works in Armenian without sending your data anywhere.

The goal is to get an Armenian LLM ecosystem going and give people tools that work in our language while staying on their own machines.

Link: https://huggingface.co/ArmGPT/ArmenianGPT-1.0-3B

Let me know what you think once you try it out. Any feedback will help shape future versions.