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01.AI released on Nov 22, 2023 Open weights (restricted use)

Yi 6B

Yi 6B (01.AI) was released on Nov 22, 2023. In the Epoch AI capability ranking (ECI), it ranks #236 out of 267 models, with 104.86. Against models of the same generation, its best result is on MMLU: 64.0%, #14 of 40.

#236 of 267 in the ECI ranking
104.86 ECI, the Epoch AI capability index
no match Arena ELO, human preference
not measured LiveBench, overall average from 0 to 100
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What the tests say

Where Yi 6B stands out and where it falls behind, by the numbers

Yi 6B has published results on 6 tests compiled by Epoch AI. The yardstick here is its generation: its position among the models released between Feb 25, 2023 and Feb 20, 2024 that took the same test. Against the whole archive, which includes 2023 models, a recent release lands near the top of almost everything, and that says nothing.

Where it stands out

Tests where it sits in the top third of its own generation.

MMLU64.0%
#14 of 40 in its generation · #52 of 92 overall

Where it falls behind

Tests where it sits in the bottom half of its own generation.

ARC (AI2)50.3%
#22 of 40 in its generation · record: 95.3% (DeepSeek-V3 (Mar 2025))
HellaSwag74.4%
#16 of 29 in its generation · record: 95.3% (GPT-4 (Mar 2023))
See all 6 tests, one by one
TestScoreIn its generationOverallTest record
MMLU 64.0% #14 / 40 #52 / 92 88.1% GPT-4o (May 2024)
ARC (AI2) 50.3% #22 / 40 #42 / 65 95.3% DeepSeek-V3 (Mar 2025)
WinoGrande 71.3% #14 / 31 #36 / 61 89.2% Llama 3.1-405B
GSM8K 44.9% #15 / 32 #29 / 54 92.0% GPT-4 (Mar 2023)
HellaSwag 74.4% #16 / 29 #34 / 51 95.3% GPT-4 (Mar 2023)
BIG-Bench Hard 47.2% #12 / 25 #24 / 41 89.2% Gemini 1.5 Pro (Sept 2024)

For each test, the model's best effort level counts, as in the ranking. Source of the scores: Epoch AI, under CC BY 4.0.

Comparison

What to compare Yi 6B with

The models from other labs closest in capability and released in the same period, at most two per lab. Click any of them to see its page.

ModelLabECIELOLiveBenchRelease
PaLM 2-S 106.26 n/a n/a May 17, 2023
Llama 2-13B Meta AI 106.25 n/a n/a Jul 18, 2023
Llama 2-34B Meta AI 105.29 n/a n/a Jul 18, 2023
StarCoder 2 15B Hugging Face 105.09 n/a n/a Feb 20, 2024
Yi 6B 01.AI 104.86 n/a n/a Nov 22, 2023
Falcon-40B Technology Innovation Institute 104.54 n/a n/a May 25, 2023
Baichuan2-13B Baichuan 103.29 n/a n/a Sep 6, 2023
Head to head

Yi 6B or Falcon-40B?

Falcon-40B is the model from another lab closest to Yi 6B in capability. Across the 6 tests both took, this is the score:

Yi 6B ahead on 3 Falcon-40B ahead on 3
Largest differences first
TestYi 6BFalcon-40B
GSM8K 44.9% 33.8%
BIG-Bench Hard 47.2% 37.1%
ARC (AI2) 50.3% 61.9%
HellaSwag 74.4% 85.3%
MMLU 64.0% 56.9%
WinoGrande 71.3% 76.9%

Unweighted score: each test counts one point, whether math or coding. The dot marks who did better on each row.

Family

Other models from 01.AI

The models from the same lab closest in time, newest first.

ModelReleaseECIELOLiveBenchAccess
Yi 6B Nov 22, 2023 104.86 n/a n/a Open weights (restricted use)
Yi-34B Nov 2, 2023 117.43 n/a n/a Open weights (restricted use)
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Frequently asked questions

What people ask about Yi 6B

Where does Yi 6B rank among AI models?

In the ROO3 AI Benchmark, ordered by the Epoch AI ECI, Yi 6B ranks #236 out of 267 models, with an ECI of 104.86. The ECI is a composite index that combines several hard benchmarks into a single scale. The position changes when a new model comes out, and the page is refreshed six times a day.

Is Yi 6B better than Falcon-40B?

Across the 6 tests both models took and Epoch AI compiled, Yi 6B comes out ahead on 3, behind on 3 and tied on 0. It is a test-by-test count with no weighting: a win in math counts the same as a win in coding. To choose between the two, look at the tests that resemble your own use.

What is Yi 6B best at?

Against models of the same generation (released up to 9 months before and up to 3 months after it), the best relative results of Yi 6B are: MMLU (#14 of 40). The yardstick is its position among the models of that period that took the same test.

Where do the numbers on this page come from?

From the same three sources as the ranking, all openly licensed: Epoch AI (ECI and individual tests, CC BY 4.0), Arena (human-preference ELO, CC BY 4.0) and LiveBench (overall average, CC BY-SA 4.0). ROO3 does not measure any model. When the page shows a figure published by the maker itself, it appears in the written analysis, labeled as the maker's, and never enters the ranking.

Sources

Where each number comes from

Epoch AI, "AI Benchmarking Hub". Published at epoch.ai. Data under the CC BY 4.0 licence, reordered by roo3.co.

The Arena (LMArena) leaderboard, from the public lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face, under the CC BY 4.0 licence. We are not affiliated with the Arena.

LiveBench, by the LiveBench team, published at livebench.ai under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. The overall average is recomputed by roo3.co with the same formula as the website (average of the categories), and those numbers stay under CC BY-SA 4.0. We are not affiliated with LiveBench.

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