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CPM-Large

Training compute
2.6×10²⁰ FLOP
Parameters
2.6B
Published
Dec 1, 2020

CPM-Large is an AI model developed by Tsinghua University and Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence / BAAI (China), first published in December 2020. It works in the language domain, on tasks such as language modeling.

Training it took an estimated 2.6×10²⁰ FLOP of compute (estimation method: third-party estimation). The model has 2,600,000,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 16.7B datapoints. Training ran on 64 NVIDIA V100 for about 336 hours. The compute alone is estimated at $7K in 2023 dollars.

Access: Open weights (unrestricted). Its weights are openly available. The reference paper has 129 citations. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.

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Organization
Tsinghua University, Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence / BAAI
Country of organization
China
Domain
Language
Task
Language modeling
Training compute
2.6×10²⁰ FLOP
Compute estimation method
Third-party estimation
Parameters
2,600,000,000
Dataset size
16.7B
Training hardware
NVIDIA V100
Chips used
64
Training time
336 h
Training power draw
39.0 kW
Training cost (2023 USD)
$7K
Model accessibility
Open weights (unrestricted)
Open weights
Yes
Citations
129
Epoch confidence
Confident
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