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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