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ESM1b

Training compute
5.1×10²¹ FLOP
Parameters
652.4M
Published
Dec 15, 2020

ESM1b is an AI model developed by Facebook AI Research and New York University (NYU) (United States and France), first published in December 2020. It works in the biology domain, on tasks such as proteins and protein or nucleotide language model (plm/nlm).

Training it took an estimated 5.1×10²¹ FLOP of compute (estimation method: hardware,operation counting). The model has 652,400,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 27.8B datapoints. Training ran on 128 NVIDIA V100. The compute alone is estimated at $924 in 2023 dollars.

Access: Open weights (unrestricted). Its weights are openly available. The reference paper has 2,637 citations. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.

Full record
Organization
Facebook AI Research, New York University (NYU)
Country of organization
United States, France
Domain
Biology
Task
Proteins, Protein or nucleotide language model (pLM/nLM)
Training compute
5.1×10²¹ FLOP
Compute estimation method
Hardware, Operation counting
Parameters
652,400,000
Dataset size
27.8B
Training hardware
NVIDIA V100
Chips used
128
Training power draw
78.0 kW
Training cost (2023 USD)
$924
Model accessibility
Open weights (unrestricted)
Open weights
Yes
Citations
2,637
Epoch confidence
Confident
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