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Cambrian-1-8B

Parameters
8B
Published
Jun 24, 2024

Cambrian-1-8B is an AI model developed by New York University (NYU) (United States), first published in June 2024. It works in the multimodal, vision and language domain, on tasks such as image captioning, visual question answering and character recognition (ocr).

Epoch AI has no training-compute estimate for this model. The model has 8,000,000,000 parameters. Training ran on 512 Google TPU v4.

Access: Open weights (unrestricted). Its weights are openly available. It is built on top of LLaMA-3-Instruct-8B. The reference paper has 802 citations. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.

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Organization
New York University (NYU)
Country of organization
United States
Domain
Multimodal, Vision, Language
Task
Image captioning, Visual question answering, Character recognition (OCR)
Parameters
8,000,000,000
Training hardware
Google TPU v4
Chips used
512
Training power draw
343.6 kW
Numerical format
FP32
Model accessibility
Open weights (unrestricted)
Open weights
Yes
Base model
LLaMA-3-Instruct-8B
Citations
802
Epoch confidence
Confident
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