# SAIL-7B [Canonical model page](https://headlessthrones.com/models/bytedance-seed-sail-7b) · [Model library](https://headlessthrones.com/models) Public catalog reference from Headless Thrones. Exact catalog ID: `bytedance-seed-sail-7b`. Catalog source-check date: 2026-10-23. This brief contains the public catalog answers and any catalog guide, not private drafts, historical editorial revisions or independently measured rankings. The canonical HTML page may also display separately published editorial. Current catalog answers ## What to know about SAIL-7B AI-compiled from linked model documentation. This is a catalog reference, not an independent performance review. Catalog checked October 23, 2026. [Exact model](https://headlessthrones.com/models/bytedance-seed-sail-7b#model-answer-identity) · [Access](https://headlessthrones.com/models/bytedance-seed-sail-7b#model-answer-access) · [Dates & knowledge](https://headlessthrones.com/models/bytedance-seed-sail-7b#model-answer-dates) · [Inputs & outputs](https://headlessthrones.com/models/bytedance-seed-sail-7b#model-answer-modalities) · [License](https://headlessthrones.com/models/bytedance-seed-sail-7b#model-answer-license) · [Model details](https://headlessthrones.com/models/bytedance-seed-sail-7b#model-answer-research) · [Weight details](https://headlessthrones.com/models/bytedance-seed-sail-7b#model-answer-repository) ### Which SAIL-7B does this page describe? SAIL-7B is a model record from **ByteDance Seed** in the SAIL family. [Source](https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/SAIL-7B) The recorded model identifier or checkpoint is `SAIL-7B`. Use that exact identifier when checking documentation or a provider listing. [Source](https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/SAIL-7B) ### How can you access SAIL-7B? The catalog documents **Open weights** access for SAIL-7B. [Source](https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/SAIL-7B) As of the catalog check, this version was listed as available. [Source](https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/SAIL-7B) Open weights means the model weights are distributed for use under their stated terms. It does not establish a hosted API, an open-source license, or a hardware requirement. ### What dates are documented for SAIL-7B? **Release date: April 2, 2025.** [Source](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bytedance/SAIL/main/README.md) This is a release milestone, not a knowledge or training cutoff. The source labels this “Publisher’s dated model release and exact 7B model link.” Neither a knowledge cutoff nor a training-data cutoff is established here. A release date, repository upload or filename cannot supply those missing dates. ### What can SAIL-7B receive and generate? Documented inputs: **text and image**. [Source](https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/SAIL-7B) Documented outputs: **text**. [Source](https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/SAIL-7B) Input support and output generation are separate capabilities. Reading an image does not establish image generation; a text output listing does not establish speech output. File sizes, formats and media limits depend on the documented implementation. ### What license is recorded for SAIL-7B? The recorded license label is **apache-2.0**. [Source](https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/SAIL-7B) Read the linked license and associated use terms for this exact version before redistribution, commercial deployment or fine-tuning. A label alone does not establish every permission, restriction or obligation, and it does not determine the terms of a separate hosted service. ### What distinguishes SAIL-7B? These details come from the linked publisher material for this model. Reported capabilities and training descriptions are publisher statements, not independent test results. **Architecture**: A single transformer integrates raw pixel encoding and language decoding. [Source](https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/SAIL-7B/resolve/45d917ac926daf6f9c3e8633b5025dc226dd2ea8/README.md) **Vision encoder**: Does not rely on a separately pretrained vision encoder. [Source](https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/SAIL-7B/resolve/45d917ac926daf6f9c3e8633b5025dc226dd2ea8/README.md) **Released variant**: SAIL-7B is the multimodal language model release; SAIL-7B-PT is linked separately as a vision encoder. [Source](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bytedance/SAIL/main/README.md) **Image input pipeline**: The official inference example converts images to base64-derived patches using the configured vision patch size, with fix\_res\_size=None. [Source](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bytedance/SAIL/main/README.md) ### What is documented about the SAIL-7B checkpoint? This evidence refers to `ByteDance-Seed/SAIL-7B` at recorded revision `45d917ac926daf6f9c3e8633b5025dc226dd2ea8`, checked October 23, 2026. [Repository metadata](https://huggingface.co/api/models/ByteDance-Seed/SAIL-7B) Recorded architecture class: `MMistralForCausalLM`. [Repository metadata](https://huggingface.co/api/models/ByteDance-Seed/SAIL-7B) Repository task tag: `image-text-to-text`. A task tag identifies a distribution category; it does not measure performance on that task. [Repository metadata](https://huggingface.co/api/models/ByteDance-Seed/SAIL-7B) Listed library: `transformers`. Check that library's version and model support before loading the weights. [Repository metadata](https://huggingface.co/api/models/ByteDance-Seed/SAIL-7B) Repository access gate: `false`. This records the repository's gate setting when checked; licensing and use terms still apply. [Repository metadata](https://huggingface.co/api/models/ByteDance-Seed/SAIL-7B) #### What the configuration file says The pinned `config.json` contains these values. [Pinned configuration](https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/SAIL-7B/resolve/45d917ac926daf6f9c3e8633b5025dc226dd2ea8/config.json) `max_position_embeddings`: 32,768 `sliding_window`: 4,096 `torch_dtype`: bfloat16 `num_attention_heads`: 32 `num_key_value_heads`: 8 `num_hidden_layers`: 32 `hidden_size`: 4,096 Configuration values describe the checkpoint and its implementation. In particular, max\_position\_embeddings, sliding\_window and rope\_scaling do not independently establish an API context limit, tested usable length or hardware requirement. Runtime, quantization, cache, batch size and input length affect deployment behavior. Read the retrieved model card for setup and qualifications. [Model card](https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/SAIL-7B/resolve/45d917ac926daf6f9c3e8633b5025dc226dd2ea8/README.md) **Catalog qualifications:** Official publisher weight listing; availability refers to this distribution, not a guaranteed hosted API. Base, SFT and research variants are identified by their exact published names. [Source 1](https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/SAIL-7B) · [Source 2](https://huggingface.co/api/models/ByteDance-Seed/SAIL-7B) · [Source 3](https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/SAIL-7B/resolve/45d917ac926daf6f9c3e8633b5025dc226dd2ea8/README.md) · [Source 4](https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/SAIL-7B/resolve/45d917ac926daf6f9c3e8633b5025dc226dd2ea8/config.json) **Evidence still missing here:** context or input capacity, knowledge and training-data cutoffs, and tested hardware requirements. Missing documentation is not evidence that a feature is unavailable. Headless Thrones has not independently benchmarked this model for this reference. Evaluate it on representative work before choosing it; these facts do not rank its accuracy, reliability, speed or suitability against another model.