Saluki 27B reportedly reaches 300,000-plus downloads in its first seven days

Underdog said on October 15 that Saluki 27B had logged 300,000-plus downloads in its first seven days and was trending on Hugging Face. The company announced the model’s release under Apache 2.0 on October 8. It claims Saluki is almost seven times smaller than its full-precision counterpart, retains 96% of its benchmark performance and beats Qwen at tool calling.