GTE-ModernColBERT-v1 is an AI model developed by LightOn (France), first published in April 2025. It works in the language domain, on tasks such as language modeling/generation and question answering.
Training it took an estimated 3.7×10²¹ FLOP of compute (estimation method: operation counting). The model has 149,000,000 parameters.
Access: Open weights (unrestricted). Its weights are openly available. It is built on top of gte-modernbert. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as likely.