AI21: Jamba Large 1.7

POST/v1/chat/completions

Jamba Large 1.7 is the latest model in the Jamba open family, offering improvements in grounding, instruction-following, and overall efficiency. Built on a hybrid SSM-Transformer architecture with a 256K context window, it delivers more accurate, contextually grounded responses and better steerability than previous versions.

Request body

Parameters supported by this model. Values, defaults, and limits are read from the model registry.

stringmodelrequired

Model identifier. Set to ai21/jamba-large-1.7.

Default: ai21/jamba-large-1.7

array<object>messagesrequired

Conversation messages in system, user, or assistant order.

Optional<integer>max_tokens

Maximum number of tokens the model may generate in the response.

Range: −∞ to 4096

Optional<number>temperature

Sampling temperature. Lower values are more deterministic; higher values are more creative.

Range: 0 to 2

Default: 1

Optional<number>top_p

Nucleus sampling threshold. Use this or temperature, but usually not both.

Range: 0 to 1

Optional<boolean>stream

When true, returns incremental Server-Sent Events instead of one completed response.

Default: false

Optional<array>tools

Tool definitions that the model may call during the response.

Optional<string>tool_choice

Controls whether the model may call a tool and, when supported, which tool it must call.

Optional<object>response_format

Controls the response format, including JSON mode or structured JSON output when supported.

Optional<array<string>>stop

Sequences that stop generation when the model produces one of them.

Response Schema

Fields returned by this model API response.

array<object>choicesrequired

Generated completion choices.

stringidrequired

Unique chat completion identifier.

stringmodelrequired

Model that generated the response.

Optional<object>usage

Token usage when available.

Model capabilities

array<string>capability_tagsrequired

Capabilities declared by the model registry.

Default: chat, structured_output, function_calling

integercontext_lengthrequired

Maximum context window accepted by this model.

Default: 256000 tokens

stringexecution_moderequired

Execution mode declared by the model registry.

Default: sync

curl -X POST https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "model": "ai21/jamba-large-1.7",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Describe this product in one sentence."
    }
  ]
}'

Response200 OK

{
  "id": "chatcmpl_abc123",
  "model": "ai21/jamba-large-1.7",
  "choices": [
    {
      "message": {
        "role": "assistant",
        "content": "A concise product description."
      }
    }
  ]
}