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CogAgent

Training compute
6.7×10²² FLOP
Parameters
18B
Published
Dec 14, 2023

CogAgent is an AI model developed by Tsinghua University and Z.ai (Zhipu AI) (China), first published in December 2023. It works in the vision and language domain, on tasks such as instruction interpretation and visual question answering.

Training it took an estimated 6.7×10²² FLOP of compute (estimation method: operation counting). The model has 18,000,000,000 parameters.

Access: Open weights (restricted use). Its weights are openly available. It is built on top of CogVLM-17B. The reference paper has 731 citations. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as likely.

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Organization
Tsinghua University, Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
Country of organization
China
Domain
Vision, Language
Task
Instruction interpretation, Visual question answering
Training compute
6.7×10²² FLOP
Compute estimation method
Operation counting
Parameters
18,000,000,000
Numerical format
BF16
Model accessibility
Open weights (restricted use)
Open weights
Yes
Base model
CogVLM-17B
Citations
731
Epoch confidence
Likely
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