# ELYZA releases two Japanese reasoning models under Apache 2.0

_Published Saturday, October 3, 2026 at 7:19 AM EDT · AI · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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ELYZA released two Japanese-language reasoning models for free download on Hugging Face on October 2, according to a note article. The KDDI Group company distributes ELYZA-Thinking-1.0-llm-jp-4-33b and ELYZA-Thinking-1.0-llm-jp-4-32b-a3b under the Apache 2.0 license, permitting commercial use.

The models build on the National Institute of Informatics' LLM-jp-4 foundation models, with additional intermediate and post-training by ELYZA. Their reasoning tuning targets logical deduction and multi-step queries. The release provides downloadable models for customization and operation within companies' own environments; planned visual and action capabilities are future extensions.

## Sources

- [note](https://note.com/natty_toucan386/n/na06105ceab03?hl=en)

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