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.