BLOOM-7.1B is an AI model developed by Hugging Face and BigScience (United States and France), first published in July 2022. It works in the language domain, on tasks such as language modeling/generation and translation.
Training it took an estimated 1.5×10²² FLOP of compute (estimation method: operation counting). The model has 7,070,000,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 354B datapoints.
Access: Open weights (restricted use). Its weights are openly available. The reference paper has 2,917 citations. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.