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Rita-XLarge

Training compute
8.6×10²⁰ FLOP
Parameters
1.2B
Published
Jul 14, 2022

Rita-XLarge is an AI model developed by LightOn, Harvard University and University of Oxford (France, United States and United Kingdom), first published in July 2022. It works in the biology domain, on tasks such as proteins and protein or nucleotide language model (plm/nlm).

Training it took an estimated 8.6×10²⁰ FLOP of compute (estimation method: reported). The model has 1,200,000,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 150B datapoints. Training ran on NVIDIA V100.

Access: Open weights (unrestricted). Its weights are openly available. The reference paper has 128 citations. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.

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Organization
LightOn, Harvard University, University of Oxford
Country of organization
France, United States, United Kingdom
Domain
Biology
Task
Proteins, Protein or nucleotide language model (pLM/nLM)
Training compute
8.6×10²⁰ FLOP
Compute estimation method
Reported
Parameters
1,200,000,000
Dataset size
150B
Training hardware
NVIDIA V100
Model accessibility
Open weights (unrestricted)
Open weights
Yes
Citations
128
Epoch confidence
Confident
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