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BitNet b1.58

Training compute
2.9×10²² FLOP
Parameters
70B
Published
Feb 27, 2024

BitNet b1.58 is an AI model developed by University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Microsoft Research (China and United States), first published in February 2024. It works in the language domain, on tasks such as language modeling/generation and question answering.

Training it took an estimated 2.9×10²² FLOP of compute (estimation method: operation counting,comparison with other models). The model has 70,000,000,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 100B datapoints.

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Organization
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Microsoft Research
Country of organization
China, United States
Domain
Language
Task
Language modeling/generation, Question answering
Training compute
2.9×10²² FLOP
Compute estimation method
Operation counting, Comparison with other models
Parameters
70,000,000,000
Dataset size
100B
Epoch confidence
Confident
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