BELLE: Open-Source Chinese Large Language Model by Lianjia

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The landscape of large language models has been dominated by English-centric systems for years. While models like GPT-4, Claude, and LLaMA deliver exceptional performance in English, their capabilities in Chinese – and the availability of open-source alternatives – have lagged behind. BELLE (Be Everyone’s Large Language model Engine) was created to close that gap.

Developed by the BELLE Group at Lianjia Technology, BELLE is an open-source Chinese large language model project that fine-tunes BLOOM and LLaMA architectures with large-scale Chinese instruction data. Named “BELLE” to evoke the idea of a beautiful, accessible engine for everyone, the project aims to democratize Chinese conversational AI in the same way that Alpaca and Vicuna did for English.

Instruction Tuning on SoloSoft

BELLE: Open-Source Chinese Large Language Model by Lianjia