Llama-3.1-Sherkala-8B-Chat: An Open Large Language Model for Kazakh. - Fajri Koto; Rituraj Joshi; Nurdaulet Mukhituly; Yuxia Wang; Zhuohan Xie; Rahul Pal; Daniil Orel; Parvez Mullah; Diana Turmakhan; Maiya Goloburda; Mohammed Kamran; Samujjwal Ghosh; et al. (CoRR, 2025)