Open-source AI · Made in Colombia

Ranks #3.
Behind only Claude
and GPT-4o.

Orchid 1.0 is a 2-billion-parameter ternary-weight language model fine-tuned on a single 4 GB laptop GPU. On our internal benchmark it outscores every open-weight model we tested — including 7B–9B systems.

2B  ternary weights Apache 2.0 Runs CPU-only Win · Linux
Orchid — pixel-art flower mark

#3 / 12
Internal benchmark rank, above every open-weight model tested
2B params
Ternary weights (−1, 0, +1) — ~1.1 GB on disk
4GB VRAM
Trained & aligned on one RTX 3050 laptop
0cloud GPUs
No datacenter. No cloud bill. ~6 tok/s on CPU alone

The proof

A 2B model in a
7B+ fight.

Internal Benchmark v2 — 100 questions across 8 categories, semantic similarity scoring. Orchid lands third of twelve models, ahead of every open-weight system, including Qwen2.5-7B and Kimi k1.5.

Science 100% · Math 93.3% · Coding 93.3%

See full benchmarks
Internal Benchmark v2 Orchid 1.0
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
89.5
GPT-4o
89.2
Orchid 1.0 · 2B
87.9
BitNet b1.58 · 2B
84.2
Kimi k1.5
82.2
Qwen2.5 · 7B
78.4

Semantic-similarity scoring is a relative comparison tool, not a substitute for standard NLP benchmarks.


Two open-source projects

A model, and the engine
that makes it run.


The story

88 hours. One laptop.
No datacenter.

Every training stage ran on a single RTX 3050 laptop — 4 GB of VRAM, 16 GB of RAM, Windows 11. SFT, then two rounds of ORPO alignment, with memory tricks that made it possible to fine-tune a 2B model on hardware most people already own.

Read the full story
training_run.log
# single RTX 3050 · 4 GB VRAM · no cloud
SFT-A   LoRA r=16   reasoning        ~1 h
SFT-B   LoRA r=16   5,500 samples    ~88 h
ORPO-2  LoRA r=8    2,038 pairs      ~26 h
ORPO-3  LoRA r=8    2,104 pairs      ~54 h
# total cloud GPUs used: 0

Out in the open

Weights, code, paper, DOI —
all public.

Hugging Face
Model card, GGUF weights & LoRA adapter — 4,127 downloads last month
huggingface.co ↗
ternative engine
C++17 / CUDA inference engine — source, releases & build instructions
github.com ↗
orchid-1.0 recipe
Training recipe, eval harness & reproduction scripts
github.com ↗
Zenodo · Technical paper
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20452163 — archived, citable research record
zenodo.org ↗
FLOSS/fund
Support continued open development of Ternative & Orchid
floss.fund ↗