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CHAI-1

Training compute
7.8×10²¹ FLOP
Published
Oct 15, 2024

CHAI-1 is an AI model developed by Chai discovery (United States), first published in October 2024. It works in the biology domain, on tasks such as protein folding prediction and protein-ligand contact prediction.

Training it took an estimated 7.8×10²¹ FLOP of compute (estimation method: hardware). Training ran on 128 NVIDIA A100 for about 720 hours.

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

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Organization
Chai discovery
Country of organization
United States
Domain
Biology
Task
Protein folding prediction, Protein-ligand contact prediction
Training compute
7.8×10²¹ FLOP
Compute estimation method
Hardware
Training hardware
NVIDIA A100
Chips used
128
Training time
720 h
Training power draw
100.8 kW
Numerical format
BF16
Model accessibility
Open weights (non-commercial)
Open weights
Yes
Citations
0
Epoch confidence
Confident
SourceEpoch AI, 'AI Models'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved 2026-07-29 from https://epoch.ai/data/ai-models. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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