Canary 1B v2

Parameters

1B

Published

Aug 14, 2025

Canary 1B v2 is an AI model developed by NVIDIA (United States), first published in August 2025. It works in the speech domain, on tasks such as speech recognition (asr), translation and speech-to-text.

Epoch AI has no training-compute estimate for this model. The model has 1,000,000,000 parameters. Training ran on 64 NVIDIA A100.

Access: Open weights (unrestricted). Its weights are openly available. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.

Full record

Organization: NVIDIA
Country of organization: United States
Domain: Speech
Task: Speech recognition (ASR), Translation, Speech-to-text
Parameters: 1,000,000,000
Training hardware: NVIDIA A100
Chips used: 64
Training power draw: 50.1 kW
Model accessibility: Open weights (unrestricted)
Open weights: Yes
Epoch confidence: Confident