# Hugging Face — Ettin Suite: SoTA Paired Encoders and Decoders

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-07-16T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Subject: Platform
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: Ettin
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/ettin
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1657-ettin-suite-sota-paired-encoders-and-decoders

Hugging Face introduces the Ettin Suite, a set of paired encoder-only and decoder-only models (17M-1B parameters) trained on identical data, architecture, and recipes, achieving state-of-the-art performance for open-data models in both categories.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/ettin:

> This blog post introduces Ettin, the first suite of SoTA paired encoder-only and decoder-only models (17M-1B params) trained with identical data (2T tokens), architecture, and training recipes.

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