MORENA 1.5B instruct, GGUF for llama.cpp

GGUF conversion of vamboai/morena-1.5b-instruct, verified for logit equivalence against the safetensors weights. Read that model card first; everything in it, including the release status and the safety notes, applies unchanged. Converting the format changes none of it.

Chat turns use the reserved tokens <reserved_0> (user) and <reserved_1> (assistant):

llama-completion -m morena-1.5b-instruct-f16.gguf -p "<reserved_0>\nNdeipi guta guru reZimbabwe?\n<reserved_1>\n" -e -n 64 --temp 0

Author and citation

Isheanesu Misi, Vambo AI. Trained on CINECA Leonardo, with support from the AI Hub for Sustainable Development.

@techreport{misi2026morena,
  title  = {MORENA: An African Foundation Model},
  author = {Misi, Isheanesu},
  institution = {Vambo AI},
  year   = {2026},
  month  = {September},
  note   = {Released 18 September 2026}
}

Licence

Apache 2.0. Commercial use is permitted, including fine-tuning and redistributing derivatives, under the terms of the licence.

The training corpus is not released with these weights.