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AesCode 8B

microsoft/AesCode-8B
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24.6K
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Weights
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API $/1M
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Modalities
text · image
Released
29 Sept 2026
License: apache-2.0 · microsoft/AesCode-8B
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Microsoft AesCode-8B: 8B model for HTML/CSS code generation

AesCode-8B is an 8-billion-parameter model fine-tuned from Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct that generates editable HTML and CSS for slides, posters, and dashboards. Released without announcement on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0, it achieves a score of 82.94 on Microsoft's 300-sample rubric. The model demonstrates strong reference-conditioned performance, dropping only 1.00 point when the reference image is withheld, compared to 19.55 points for its base model.

What's new
  • Context window of 24,576 tokens reported in configuration
  • Fine-tuned from Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct with multimodal (text and image) capabilities
  • Weights and training code released on GitHub with no Microsoft Research announcement
  • 32B companion model (AesCode-32B) built the same way from Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct
Best for
Generating HTML and CSS for web UI/dashboard designCode generation from visual referencesMultimodal design-to-code tasks
Sources

Source: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/AesCode-8B