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Ferret (13B)

Parameters
13B
Published
Oct 11, 2023

Ferret (13B) is an AI model developed by Columbia University and Apple (United States), first published in October 2023. It works in the multimodal, language and vision domain, on tasks such as object recognition and language modeling.

Epoch AI has no training-compute estimate for this model. The model has 13,000,000,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 172.6M datapoints. Training ran on 8 NVIDIA A100 for about 120 hours.

Access: Open weights (non-commercial). Its weights are openly available. It is built on top of Vicuna-13B v0. The reference paper has 524 citations. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.

Full record
Organization
Columbia University, Apple
Country of organization
United States
Domain
Multimodal, Language, Vision
Task
Object recognition, Language modeling
Parameters
13,000,000,000
Dataset size
172.6M
Training hardware
NVIDIA A100
Chips used
8
Training time
120 h
Chip-hours
960
Training power draw
6.4 kW
Numerical format
BF16
Model accessibility
Open weights (non-commercial)
Open weights
Yes
Base model
Vicuna-13B v0
Citations
524
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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