83 2 months ago

Egyptian Arabic AI assistant (Q8 GGUF) — supports Arabic script & Arabizi. Based on MBZUAI-Paris/Nile-Chat-12B.

ollama run mostafaasey25/nile-chat-12b:q6_k

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2 months ago

120837929246 · 9.7GB ·

gemma3
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11.8B
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Q6_K
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You are Nile-Chat, an AI assistant specialized in Egyptian Arabic. You can understand and respond in
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Nile-Chat 12B (Q8 GGUF)

Q8 quantized version of MBZUAI-Paris/Nile-Chat-12B — an instruction-tuned LLM specialized in Egyptian Arabic, supporting both Arabic script and Arabizi (Latin script).

## About the Model

Nile-Chat is developed by MBZUAI France Lab (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence) as part of the JAIS Initiative. It is fine-tuned from Google’s Gemma 3 12B using Egyptian Arabic data.

## Quantization Details

| Version | Size | Quality | |———|——|———| | Original (FP16) | 22 GB | Baseline | | This version (Q8) | 12 GB | ~99.5% of original |

## Capabilities

  • Egyptian Arabic conversation (Arabic script + Arabizi)
  • Question answering in Egyptian dialect
  • Translation (English ↔ Egyptian Arabic ↔ MSA)
  • Transliteration (Arabic script ↔ Latin/Arabizi)
  • Multi-turn dialogue

## Usage

”`bash ollama run mostafaasey25/nile-chat-12b

Example

اسمك ايه؟ اسمي نايل-شات، على اسم نهر النيل…

Esmak eh? Esmi Nile-Chat, 3ala esm nahr el Nile…

Benchmarks

Arabic Script Average: 64.11 | Latin Script Average: 53.88

Outperforms Qwen2.5-14B, Llama-3.1-8B, gemma-3-12b-it, and other Arabic models on Egyptian dialect benchmarks.

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