The publication AI reads — a remote MCP server, nothing to install.Connect your agent →

01-ai/Yi-1.5-9B-Chat-16K

01-ai/Yi-1.5-9B-Chat-16K is a 01-ai record on this register. The Hugging Face model API lists the pipeline tag as text-generation. The safetensors index gives an exact parameter count of 8,829,407,232. Architectural context length (max_position_embeddings) is 16,384. The listed licence is apache-2.0. The Hub repository was created on 15 May 2024, which is the release date this register uses.

Primary source: the Hugging Face model card for 01-ai/Yi-1.5-9B-Chat-16K. Fields below come from that card, the Hub model API, and the repository’s own config.json when those files exist. A field we cannot source is omitted rather than guessed.

Organisation01-ai
ReleasedRepo creation date on Hugging Face15 May 2024
Last modified26 Jun 2024
ParametersExact, from the safetensors index8.8B 8,829,407,232
Context lengthmax_position_embeddings — architectural maximum, not necessarily served16K 16,384
Licenceapache-2.0
Pipeline / taskpipeline_tag on the Hugging Face model APItext-generation
File formatssafetensors
Architecturellama
Layers48
Vocabulary64,000
DownloadsAt last check9.1k
Likes37
GatedNo

How to run

Safetensors weights are on the Hugging Face repository. The parameter count on this page came from that index.

Load it from huggingface.co/01-ai/Yi-1.5-9B-Chat-16K. This page does not add install steps that the Hub files do not state.

Agent capabilities

Derived from the model’s own chat template, with the match counts behind each finding.

  • ○Tool callingno evidence in template
  • ○Reasoning / thinkingno evidence in template
  • ●System prompt1 match in template
  • ○Image inputno evidence in template
  • ○Video inputno evidence in template
  • ○Audio inputno evidence in template

Questions this record can answer

When was Yi-1.5-9B-Chat-16K released?
The Hugging Face repository was created on 15 May 2024, which is the date this register uses.
How many parameters does Yi-1.5-9B-Chat-16K have?
The safetensors index gives 8,829,407,232 parameters, shown here as 8.8B. That figure is exact, not rounded.
What is the context length of Yi-1.5-9B-Chat-16K?
16,384 tokens. That is max_position_embeddings from the model's own config.json — the architectural maximum, not necessarily the context a provider serves.
What licence is Yi-1.5-9B-Chat-16K under?
The Hub card lists apache-2.0.
Is Yi-1.5-9B-Chat-16K gated?
No. The Hugging Face model API does not mark this repository as gated.
Does the Yi-1.5-9B-Chat-16K chat template show tool calling?
The chat template was read and no tool-calling evidence was found.

Where each field came from

  • Hugging Face model API — releasedAt, lastModified, downloads, likes, task, license, gated, parameters. Checked 3 Oct 2026.
  • config.json — contextLength, layers, vocabSize, architecture. Checked 3 Oct 2026.
  • chat template — capabilities. Checked 3 Oct 2026.

First recorded 24 Sept 2026, last checked 3 Oct 2026. This record is compiled automatically from the sources above. Where a field is blank, we could not source it and have not guessed. Canonical repository: huggingface.co/01-ai/Yi-1.5-9B-Chat-16K.