Which language model performs best in Basque?

EvalEU: an open ranking that measures and compares how well local language models (Latxa, Kimu, Qwen, Gemma...) handle Basque.

May 23, 2026

Convert Models to GGUF Format

A guide to converting Hugging Face models to GGUF with llama.cpp, so you can run them locally with Ollama or Llama.cpp.

February 8, 2026

New Latxa VL Models

Testing HiTZ's small Latxa VL models: describing images in Basque and, above all, extracting text from them as OCR.

February 7, 2026

Kimu

Orai's Kimu Basque language models (2B and 9B, based on Gemma 2), converted to GGUF and run locally with Ollama.

October 13, 2024

Local RAG in Basque using Tülu 3

A local RAG system in Basque with Tülu 3 70B, Ollama and Open-WebUI: chat with your documents, with everything running on your machine.

February 9, 2024