NAS+ESS (156M) is an AI model developed by Northeastern University (China), Chinese Academy of Sciences, NiuTrans Research and Kingsoft (China), first published in May 2020. It works in the language domain, on tasks such as neural architecture search - nas and language modeling.
Training it took an estimated 2.9×10¹⁸ FLOP of compute (estimation method: operation counting). The model has 156,000,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 103M datapoints. Training ran on 1 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.
Access: Unreleased. Its weights are not openly released. The reference paper has 12 citations. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.