Preferred Networks

Preferred Networks built PLaMo 3.0 Fin on PLaMo 3 NICT, a pretrained model from joint research with NICT, by further training on Japanese finance data, and released it as an open-weight finance-focused small language model. Aimed at financial institutions' operations, it reasons before answering with the reasoning trace in Japanese and can call external tools such as web search, calculation and internal databases. Its small size lets it run from a single GPU in closed cloud or on-premises environments, positioned as the core model of AI agents handling tasks such as inquiry classification, document extraction and alert analysis.

Preferred Networks built PLaMo 3.0 Fin on PLaMo 3 NICT, a pretrained model from joint research with NICT, by further training on Japanese finance data, and released it as an open-weight finance-focused small language model. Aimed at financial institutions' operations, it reasons before answering with the reasoning trace in Japanese and can call external tools such as web search, calculation and internal databases. Its small size lets it run from a single GPU in closed cloud or on-premises environments, positioned as the core model of AI agents handling tasks such as inquiry classification, document extraction and alert analysis.

Preferred Networks released PLaMo 3 Translate, a translation-specialized LLM suite originally built for its own PLaMo Translate service, as open weights on Hugging Face in four sizes (0.8B, 2B, 8B, 31B), runnable entirely offline on smartphones, laptops or internal corporate servers across 53 languages including English and Japanese. Under the PLaMo Community License, individuals and enterprises with annual revenue of 1 billion yen or less in their most recent fiscal year can download and use the models free for commercial and non-commercial purposes; larger organizations need a commercial license. PFN says its comparative evaluations put even the smallest 0.8B version ahead of comparable translation-specific LLMs such as Google's TranslateGemma and Tencent's Hy-MT2.

Preferred Networks released PLaMo 3 Translate, a translation-specialized LLM suite originally built for its own PLaMo Translate service, as open weights on Hugging Face in four sizes (0.8B, 2B, 8B, 31B), runnable entirely offline on smartphones, laptops or internal corporate servers across 53 languages including English and Japanese. Under the PLaMo Community License, individuals and enterprises with annual revenue of 1 billion yen or less in their most recent fiscal year can download and use the models free for commercial and non-commercial purposes; larger organizations need a commercial license. PFN says its comparative evaluations put even the smallest 0.8B version ahead of comparable translation-specific LLMs such as Google's TranslateGemma and Tencent's Hy-MT2.

PFN released PLaMo 3 Translate, the translation-focused large language model behind its PLaMo translation service, as open-weight models in four sizes, 0.8B, 2B, 8B and 31B, which can be embedded in phones, laptops or in-house servers to translate among 53 languages including Japanese and English without a network connection. By PFN's own evaluation, the smallest model scores above Google's TranslateGemma and Tencent's Hy-MT2 on translation quality, and companies and individuals with revenue or sales of 1 billion yen or less in the latest fiscal year may use it commercially for free under the PLaMo Community License.

PFN released PLaMo 3 Translate, the translation-focused large language model behind its PLaMo translation service, as open-weight models in four sizes, 0.8B, 2B, 8B and 31B, which can be embedded in phones, laptops or in-house servers to translate among 53 languages including Japanese and English without a network connection. By PFN's own evaluation, the smallest model scores above Google's TranslateGemma and Tencent's Hy-MT2 on translation quality, and companies and individuals with revenue or sales of 1 billion yen or less in the latest fiscal year may use it commercially for free under the PLaMo Community License.