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Generative BST

Training compute
1.4×10²² FLOP
Parameters
9.4B
Published
Mar 5, 2021

Generative BST is an AI model developed by Facebook AI Research (United States and France), first published in March 2021. It works in the language domain, on tasks such as language modeling/generation, chat and question answering.

Training it took an estimated 1.4×10²² FLOP of compute (estimation method: operation counting). The model has 9,431,810,048 parameters. It was trained on roughly 56.8B datapoints.

Access: Open weights (unrestricted). Its weights are openly available. The reference paper has 1,123 citations. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.

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Organization
Facebook AI Research
Country of organization
United States, France
Domain
Language
Task
Language modeling/generation, Chat, Question answering
Training compute
1.4×10²² FLOP
Compute estimation method
Operation counting
Parameters
9,431,810,048
Dataset size
56.8B
Numerical format
FP16
Model accessibility
Open weights (unrestricted)
Open weights
Yes
Citations
1,123
Epoch confidence
Confident
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