Samba 3.8B is an AI model developed by Microsoft and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) (United States), first published in June 2024. It works in the language domain, on tasks such as language modeling/generation.
Training it took an estimated 7.3×10²² FLOP of compute (estimation method: operation counting). The model has 3,800,000,000 parameters.
Access: Unreleased. Its weights are not openly released. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.