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NÜWA

Training compute
7.2×10²¹ FLOP
Parameters
870M
Published
Nov 24, 2021

NÜWA is an AI model developed by Microsoft Research and Peking University (United States and China), first published in November 2021. It works in the multimodal, vision, image generation and 2 more domain, on tasks such as image generation, video generation, text-to-image and text-to-video.

Training it took an estimated 7.2×10²¹ FLOP of compute (estimation method: hardware). The model has 870,000,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 5.5B datapoints. Training ran on NVIDIA A100.

Access: Unreleased. Its weights are not openly released. The reference paper has 340 citations. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.

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Organization
Microsoft Research, Peking University
Country of organization
United States, China
Domain
Multimodal, Vision, Image generation, Video, Language
Task
Image generation, Video generation, Text-to-image, Text-to-video
Training compute
7.2×10²¹ FLOP
Compute estimation method
Hardware
Parameters
870,000,000
Dataset size
5.5B
Training hardware
NVIDIA A100
Model accessibility
Unreleased
Open weights
No
Citations
340
Epoch confidence
Confident
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