H2O-Danube2-1.8B Achieves Top Ranking on Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard for 2 Billion (2B) Parameters Range

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--H2O.ai, the open source leader in Generative AI and machine learning, is proud to announce that its latest open-weights (Apache v2.0) small language model, H2O-Danube2-1.8B, has secured the top position on the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard for the <2B range, even surpassing the much larger Gemma-2B model from Google in the 2.5B parameter category. This achievement underscores H2O.ai's commitment to advancing AI accessibility and performance through